Notes and resources used by Jon Sass to write "The Versatile Millstone, Workhorse of Early Industry". This file relates to Jon Sass's book "The Versatile Millstone, Workhorse of Early Industry" available in our library https://new.millsarchive.org/library/index/?which=1509
Contains: SPOOM advertisement/order form for Jon Sass's book; invoice from Meadow Mill Company, North Carolina for a hand mill pick; talk notes for Jon Sass's presentation to the SPAB Mill Section Autumn meeting, 1996; folder containing photocopies of photographs of millstones from Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley; Folder containing drawings of different millstone designs used in his book; Folder labelled "Hulling & Shelling Stones" containing chapters for the book and photocopies from "Practical American Millwright & Miller"; Four Charles Ross and Son Company trade catalogues - dated April 1931, May 1919, December 1919 - for filling machines, mills and mixers for laboratories, conical buhr stones, and pan mills. One Kent Machine Works trade catalogue - no date - for Kent grinding equipment. Correspondence - dated 1957, 1965, 1966 - between Paul Flory and Charles Ross and Son Company, New York relating to Paul Flory acquiring old millstones from the company for his collection.
Correspondence - dated 1956, 1957 - between Paul Flory and the Kent Machine Works, New York relating to the former acquiring millstones from the latter for his collection.
Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright