The glass industry in South Boston / Joan E. Kaiser ; foreword by J. Garrison Stradling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaiser, Joan E.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glass manufacture--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century.

Glass manufacture.

Glassware--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century.

Glassware.

Glassware--Collectors and collecting.

History.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Physical Description:

ix, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, [2009]

Contents:

Foreword / by J. Garrison Stradling

Introduction

1. An overview, 1811-1896

Settling South Boston, 1630-1811

3. South Boston's first furnaces : South Boston Crown Glass Works, South Boston Flint Glass Works, 1811-1847

4. The glassworks of Thomas H. Cains : South Boston Flint Glass Works, Cains' Glass House, Phoenix Glass Works, 1812-1872

5. Patrick F. Slane, America's forgotten glassmaker : a study of the American Glass Company, 1847-1857

6. Deming Jarves and the Mount Washington Glass Works, c. 1840-1870

7. Joshua Jenkins and the Suffolk Glass Company, 1850-1885

8. Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company : John Charles DeVoy, superintendant, 1883

9. Common bottles and flasks

10. The window glass business

11. The Dillaway family, mold makers to the glass industry

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Hawes and Hersey's Glassware Press

Appendix B. Downer Kerosene Oil Company

Appendix C. The Siemens regenerative gas furnace

Notes to text

Notes to plates

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781584658047

1584658045

OCLC:

318878250

Publisher Number:

99936508896