Using newspapers, historical documents, and examples from several trades, this exhibit explored the life of the American apprentice in such occupations as tailoring, tinsmithing, and housewifery. Featured in the exhibit were the indenture papers of Robert Livingston to a New York lawyer in 1742. Livingston would eventually become the first Governor of New Jersey.
METC receives an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts is situated on Lenapehoking, the ancestral land of the Lenape people. We pay respect to Lenape people of the past, present, and future.