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Ralph Flagg Windoes
1891–1967
Known for practical early 20th-century guides to woodworking and drafting, this American author wrote clear, hands-on books for students and makers. His best-known surviving work, Cedar Chests, How to Make Them, reflects a straightforward teaching style built around useful craft skills.
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Cedar chests, how to make them
by Ralph Flagg Windoes
About the author
Ralph Flagg Windoes was an American author and instructor associated with practical education in woodworking and drawing. Library and catalog records connect him with books including Cedar Chests, How to Make Them, Architectural Drawing for Secondary Schools (with Harvey Blaine Campbell), and Shop Sketching, showing a career centered on manual training and technical instruction.
His best-known book today is Cedar Chests, How to Make Them, published by The Bruce Publishing Company in the early 1920s and later preserved by the Library of Congress and Project Gutenberg. The book focuses on design, materials, and construction methods in a clear, usable way, which suggests he wrote for readers who wanted to build things rather than simply read about them.
Available records identify him as Ralph Flagg Windoes, born in 1891 and deceased in 1967. I couldn't confirm many personal biographical details from reliable online sources, but the works that remain paint a picture of a practical teacher whose books were meant to make craft and drafting skills approachable.