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