Products and Services Useful to ALHFAM Members

This listing of commerical vendors is our only advertising section. All those listed are ALHFAM Business Associate members. Links are provided to their web sites, or to an email address for the company.

• Ageless Artifice - Reproduction body care products: powders, salves, perfumes and more, all made from original 17th, 18th, and 19th century recipes. Wholesale and retail catalogs available.

• American Magic-Lantern Theatre

• Ames Instrument Company

• Astragal Press

• Barnhart Studios

• Blue Hen Bakers

The Cherry Valley Group - Innovation for Cultural Institutions - Providing assistance to museums and cultural oraganizations in Organizational Management, Interpretation & Public Programming, Exhibitions, Collections & Curatorial Services and Operations & General Services.

•  Clippership Publications - Books for a one room schoolhouse.  Faithful reproductions or recreations of the Primers and other children's books used in 19th century schools and homes.

• The Clothing Bureau

 

• Collections Research for Museums A museum consulting firm that specializes in cataloging/collection management training and services.

• The Costume & Textile Specialists

• Day Basket Factory

 

• Deborah Peterson's Pantry

• East Knoll Pottery - The #1 Yellow Ware pottery in the USA.

• Ezra Barnhouse Goods

 

• Hendricks & Associates Consultants

 

• Historical Folk Toys, LLC

 

• History Behind the Scenes Providing consultant services (planning, staff training, education/ interpretation, collections management, research and writing) to history, living history, historic house/ sites and immigration museums. Susan Hanson, principal.

 

• Homestead Folk Toys

• Hourglass Costumes

 

• Holder Bros. Timber Frames

• Interpretive Graphics

 

• J.R. Wickersty Typefaces
  
  

• James Country Mercantile, Inc.
  
  

• Lavender's Green Historic Clothing

 

• M. Christine Castle (Ph.D. Education; M.A.Teaching-Museum Education), museum consultant and educator, specializes in training and development for staff, volunteers, docents, and board members at history museums and historic sites.

• Maggie May's Historic Clothing

• Making History Connections

Marketing Early America can assist you with a variety of marketing, communications, administration, fundraising, and website development tasks. We work with you to complete the project to your specifications.

• Mischka Press/Rural Heritage MMagazine

• Olde Time Services, LLC

• Opportunity Resources Inc. is a nationally recognized  executive search  firm with over 30 years of experience specializing in non-profit cultural organizations. We have successfully filled  hundreds of  CEO and senior positions for client institutions in all disciplines nationwide. Our process is consultative, all-inclusive and continues through an offer and acceptance.

  SAMPLING OF EXECUTIVE SEARCHES: Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, KY; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; Haggerty Museum of Art – Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Corning Museum of Glass, NY; Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Portland Art Museum, OR; Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

   

• Panther Primitives

• Parchment and PCs Consulting

• Paul's Historical Products  As America’s original natural apothecary manufacturer since 1868, Watkins uses only the finest natural ingredients in its diverse lines of personal care, home care, remedies and organic flavorings. Please us my associate number 383114 when ordering any product.

• POOPOOPAPER CO. crafts natural and odorless paper products made from cow, horse, donkey, elephant and other types of poo!  Playfully outrageous journals, notepads, picture frames, albums, greeting cards all with an underlying message of sustainability.  Custom design programs available too!

• PROS Consulting

• Quartermaster Shop  Welcome to QUARTERMASTER SHOP, where quality historical reproduction military uniforms and men's clothing have been expertly tailored here in the USA for over 30 years!  We focus on the time period of 1833-1899.  Check out the "Old West Clothing" and "Civilian Clothing" sections for your historic park clothing needs.

 

• Rural Heritage Magazine

• Ruth Crocker
  

 

• Sally Queen & Associates Connections to historic cloth and clothing through special events and products featuring historic fashions -- items such as our annual wall calendar and swatchbooks for living history specialists.

 

• Silhouettes By Hand

• Sneak Peek Productions

• Stiftelsen Jamtlands Lans Museum

 

• Tillers International Training programs on the use of oxen and draft horses, blacksmithing, timberframe construction and other useful skills for living history programs.

• Toolemera Press Ephemera & Books on Early Tools, Trades, Crafts and Industries.

• Trillium Dell Timberworks Trillium Dell timber frame structures are built with craftsmanship and sustainability.  Our products and services include timber frame home construction and historic restoration, as well as timber elements such as porches, trusses, and additons. We build primarily in the midwest, but work throughout the United States.

• Ulster Linen Company, Inc

 

• Valentine Seed Company

• Victor Trading Company & Manufacturing Works Hand made brooms, tin ware -- especially historic cookie cutters -- letterpress printing, beeswax candles, and more, produced by Sam & Karen Morrison.

 

• Westmoore Pottery Handmade pottery -- redware, salt-glazed stoneware and green-glazed wares. Replicas of 17th, 18th and early 19th-century pottery.  We also carry high quality handblown glass replicas from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

• The Wool Merchants Daughter

Our thanks to these supporters of the ALHFAM website.

For information on becoming a Business Associate and listing your commerical web site on this page contact the web site manager or go to our Business Membership Page