Hi, Margaret
Some references I use are:
Simpson, Pamela H. (1999) Cheap, Quick and Easy, Imitative Architectural
Materials, 1870-1930. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville
Jester, Thomas C. (ed) (1995) Twentieth-Century Building Materials;
History and Conservation. McGraw Hill, New York
Paul, Larry (2005) Made in the 20th Century. Scarecrow Press, Lanham,
Maryland
For variations in Fiesta, I like Moran, Mark F. and Glen Victorey (2006)
Fiesta. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin.
-- Megan Springate
> The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is studying two industrial sites
> in Big Bend Ranch State Park in far west Texas that are located within 500
> m of each other. Each facility has an associated small settlement. The
> candelilla wax factory was established around 1914 and operated through
> 1921, while the cinnabar flotation mill and retorts were built in 1939 and
> were in operation as late as 1944.
>
> We suspect that some of the houses in the earlier settlement were
> reoccupied during the later cinnabar processing period. The challenge is
> to distinguish artifacts dating to the 1910s from ones dating to the late
> 1930s and 1940s. Depression glass and Fiesta ware (beginning in 1936)
> would be indicative of the later occupation, and some bottle marks also
> can be limited to one or the other of these time ranges.
>
> Please advise me of other artifacts with spans of production that allow
> for the distinction of these early 20th century time periods.
>
> Margaret Howard, Archeology Survey Team Leader
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