Thanks to all who responded to my query regarding lab manuals for
historical archaeology.  Several people requested that I post the results:

Russell J. Barber
  1994  Doing Historical Archaeology. Prentice Hall

Canadian Park Service
  1992  Classification System for Historical Collections.  Canadian Parks
        Service, Ottawa.

The Cultural Resources Group
  1996  Analytical Coding System for Historic Period Artifacts.  Louis
        Berger& Associates.

Hodges, Henry
  1976  Artifacts:  An introduction to early materials and technology.
        John Baker, Bedford Row, London.

Plenderleith, H. J. and A. E. A. Werner
  1976  The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art:  Treatment,
        Repair and Restoration.  Oxford University Press, London.

Schlereth, Thomas
1996   " Artifacts and the American Past"  AltaMira Press


Schlereth, Thomas (editor)
1999    "Material Culture Studies in America"  AltaMira Press

Sease, Catherine
  1992  A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist.  Institute of
        Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Other, less specific, responses include the following:

>Sonoma State University (California) put together a very nice project
>(field/research/lab) manual for the Cypress Project.  Check with Adrian
>Praetzellis--sorry, don't have his address/email reference with me.  Then
>there's the IMAC (?) manual, used by feds (BLM, others?) in the
>intermountain west (Utah, Nevada, etc.).

>The Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeological has just republished its
lab
>manual (4th or 5th edition I believe).

Rob Mann
Anthropology Department
SUNY- Binghamton
Binghamton, New York