Dictionary of discards

the long version

This book is an A-to-Z checklist of over scrap materials and items found around the home, garage, barn, school and camp with drawings of thousands of items that can be made from those discards. While today's readers are unlikely to have rabbit skins, corset stays, or radio antennae wire lying about the house, the descriptions of their uses (along with a wide range of other materials, some actually still in use) do provide an interesting view of thrift in the 1950s.