Dan,

Check out my thesis on manufactured and imported building materials in early nineteenth-century Indiana. I include an entire chapter on window glass in which I discuss foreign and domestic sources of flat glass, transportation routes, availability, cost, and other factors. I examined dozens of historic newspaper advertisements for my research, including papers in southern Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio. It also might be a good place to find citations for additional sources. You can find it on academia.edu here: http://ballstate.academia.edu/ChrisManningPratt/Papers/362449/_Just_Arrived_from_the_East_Manufactured_and_Imported_Building_Materials_in_Early_Nineteenth-Century_Indiana

Chris



Date:    Wed, 11 May 2011 15:40:08 -0400
From:    "Davis, Daniel (KYTC)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Early 19th Century window glass

Good afternoon!

Can anyone direct me toward references for early 19th century window
glass in the eastern US - that aren't for dating the associated
structures? Specifically, I'm looking for information on price and
availability and operating under the assumption that more window glass
on a site for this time period will directly associate with a higher
socioeconomic status for the site's occupants. I've got 4 sites in
central Kentucky that date from around 1790 to 1840 and based on the
excavations to date, there is significant variance in the amount of
window glass from each site. I'm guessing the window glass types would
be blown plate, crown, or cylinder glass though I don't think there's a
good way to separate the types.



Thanks,



Daniel B. Davis
Archaeologist Coordinator
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250