Ebook: Hand Forging and Wrought-Iron Ornamental Work

Hardbound, 197 pages with ink drawings and photos by the author
Out of Print for most of a century, various reprints available

Written as a text book by Thomas Francis Googerty one hundred years ago at the end of the horse drawn era and begining of the modern industrial era. Googerty was born in Pontiac, Michigan about 1863 to a barely literate Irish immigrant family. He taught blacksmithing at Illinois State Reformatory starting about 1889. In 1938 the Chicago Daily News captioned a front page story about Tom Googerty with the phrase, "Iron Worker With Dreams Helps Forge Men at Pontiac."