I would like to thank those list members who have responded to my Tuesday query about glass & ceramics both on and off list.  Apparently the Parks Canada Glass Glossary is a must (everyone mentioned it).

    Again, thanks to all of you, this information will be valuable.

    Chris Murphy



LOCKHART BILL wrote:

> Hi Histarchers and Chris,
>
>         In addition to George's bibliography, here are some that I have
> found helpful for categorizing container glass from the 19th & 20th
> century.
>
> Bill
>
> Baugher-Perlin, Sherene
>         1982 "Analyzing Glass Bottles for Chronology, Function, and Trade Networks."  In Archaeology of Urban America:  The Search for Pattern and Progress, pp. 259-290.  Edited by Roy S. Dickens.  Academic Press, New York.
>
> Berge, Dale L.
>         1980 Simpson Springs Station:  Historical Archaeology in Western Utah.  Cultural Resource Series No. 6.  Bureau of Land Management, Utah.
>
> Busch, Jane
>         1991 "Second Time Around:  A Look at Bottle Reuse." In Approaches to Material Culture Research for historical Archaeologists, pp. 113-126.  Society for Historic Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
>
> Downard, William L.
>         1980 Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling Industries.  Greenwood Press, Westport, Connicticut. [good for dating liquor and beer companies]
>
> Giarde, Jeffery L.
>         1980 Glass Milk Bottles:  Their Makers and Marks.  Time Travelers Press, Bryn Mawr, California. [Excellent collector's literature--includes marks missed by Toulouse]
>
> Hill, Sarah H.
>         1982 "An Examination of Manufacture-Deposition Lag for Glass Bottles from Late Historic Sites."  In Archaeology of Urban America:  The Search for Pattern and Progress, pp. 291-327.  Edited by Roy S. Dickens.  Academic Press, New York.
>
> Hull-Walski, Deborah and James E. Ayers
>         1989 The Historical Archaeology of Dam Construction Camps in Central Arizona., Volume 3: Laboratory Methods and Data Computerization.  Dames & Moore, Phoenix. [lots of various 19th & 20th century bottle & ceramic dates]
>
> Lockhart, Bill
>         2000 Bottles on the Border:  The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 1881-2000.  Towsend Library, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo.  http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~lockhart/EPSodas/ [sections discussing returnable soda bottles–dating charts for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Dr Pepper bottles]
>
> Lockhart, Bill and Wanda Olszewski
>         1993 The El Paso Coliseum Collection:  A Study of 20th Century Bottles.  The County of El Paso, Texas and the University of Texas at El Paso.
>
>         1994 "Excavation and Analysis of a Nineteenth Century Bottle Pit in San Elizario, Texas."  The Artifact 32(1):29-49.
>
>         1995 "The El Paso Coliseum Collection:  A Study of 20th Century Bottles." The Artifact33(3):1-91.  (revised version of 1993 study)
>
> Pastron, Allen G., Jack Prichett, and Marilyn Ziebarth
>         1981 Behind the Sea Wall:  Historical Archaeology Along the San Francisco Waterfront.  3 Vols.  Prepared for the San Francisco Clean Water Program.  Archeo-Tec, San Francisco.
>
> Paul, John R. and Paul W. Parmalee
>         1973 Soft Drink Bottling:  A History with Special Reference to Illinois.  Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield, Ill. [good section on finish types]
>
> Schulz, Peter D., Betty J. Rivers, Mark M. Hales, Charles A. Litzinger, and Elizabeth A. McKee
>         1980 The Bottles of Old Sacremento:  A Study of Nineteenth-Century Glass and Ceramic Retail Containers, Part I.  California Archaeological Reports, No. 20.  Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, California.
>
> Van Wieren, Dale
>         1995 American Breweries II.  East Coast Brewiana Association, West Point, Pennsylvania. [*very* comprehensive dating of virtually all US breweries]
>
> Ward, Albert E., Emily K. Abbink, and John R. Stein
>         1977 "Ethnohistorical and Chronological Basis of the Navajo Material Culture."  In Settlement and Subsistence Along the Lower Chaco River:  -The CGP Survey, pp. 217- 278.  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. [good bottle dating guide]
>
> Wilson, Bill and Betty
>         1968 Spirits Bottles of the Old West.  Antigue & Hobby Publishing Co., Amador City, Cal.
>
> Wilson, Rex
>         1981 Bottles on the Western Frontier.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
>
> Woodhead, E. I., C. Sullivan, and G. Gusset
>         1984 Lighting Devices in the National Reference Collection, Parks Canada.  Parks Canada, Ottawa.
>
> Zumwalt, Betty
>         1980 Ketchup Pickles Sauces:  19th Century Food in Glass.  Mark West
> Publications, Fulton, California. [good study on culinary bottles]
> [Good research by a collector--she and her former husband, Bill
> Wilson always include historical information]
> Bill Lockhart
> New Mexico State University
> Alamogordo, NM
> (505) 439-3732