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Recent updates, additions and revisions to this website
-William Walton, the Whiteman Brothers, and the Warren Glass Works - Pete Schulz, Bill Lockhart, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey (From Bottles & Extras Magazine, July-August 2010) Article on this progression of companies that operated in New York City, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. -The Strange Case of the Aetna and Arsenal Glass Works - Bill Lockhart (From Bottles & Extras Magazine, May-June 2010) Article that tries to sort out the confusing information on these Pittsburgh area glass makers. -Exceptionally useful tools for determining what a particular bottle shape or type was likely used for are period bottle/glass makers illustrated catalogs. The author is in the process of adding two additional - never before re-printed - bottle makers catalogs (i.e., scanned jpeg copies) covering a wide array of bottle types. Click on the following links to access these catalogs - the 1920 Illinois Glass Co. bottle catalog and the 1926 Illinois Glass Co. bottle catalog. The 1920 catalog has been completely posted; the 1926 catalog is still still only partially listed. Other bottle makers catalogs will be posted as time allows including a 1916-1917 Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Co. catalog and a 1930 Owens-Illinois Glass Co. catalog. -The author of this website has prepared a summary of the mouth-blown bottle finishing methods section on the Bottle Finishes & Closures page which is available as a downloadable and printable (pdf) article. Click The Finishing Touch: A Primer on Mouth-blown Bottle Finishing Methods to view/download this article (32 pages and full of illustrations). This copyrighted article is pending publishing as part of a future Society for Historical Archaeology book on bottle and glass manufacturing but is being made available to users of this site as a free download. -Bill Lockhart (University of New Mexico - Alamogordo) and a member of the Bottle Research Group maintained several different websites or "web books" (as he calls them) on the U. of New Mexico servers. That is no longer possible, so these "web books" (two on soda bottles and one on NM milk bottles) are being added to this website as pdf files available for viewing, copying or printing. The first installment - the first 4 chapters of the "Bottles on the Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 1881-2000" - is available at this link: Historic Bottle Related Links page. (Note: The remainder of this still incomplete "web book" is pending addition in the near future.) -The second installment of Bill Lockhart's "web books" is entitled "Just Who in the Heck is Lulu, Anyway? The Alamogordo, New Mexico Carbonated Beverage Industry and its Bottles." This (pdf downloads) is about the soda industry in Alamogordo, NM. in the 20th century beginning in 1903 just after founding of the town. The complete downloadable and printable book - in the form of 9 different files - is available at this link: Historic Bottle Related Links page -The final installment of Bill Lockhart's "web books" is entitled "You Can Whip Our Cream, But You Can’t Beat Our Milk: The Dairies of Otero County, New Mexico, 1889 to 1977. " This is another web book (pdf downloads) that is nominally about a small region of the country - New Mexico - but has an extensive overview of milk bottles that is applicable to the entire U. S. The complete downloadable and printable book - in the form of 12 different files - is available at this link: Historic Bottle Related Links page -Additional information continues to be added to the current work-in-progress typology page - Household Bottles (non-food related). The ink bottles section is now complete with work being done on the bulk/master ink bottles section as well as other sections on that page. ...and lots of smaller additions, corrections, and the like always ongoing. |
