Website Map

The following is a listing or "map" of all the main subject pages and connected sub-pages found within this Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website. The main subject pages are in bold capital letters and the sub-pages are listed underneath the related main page title in smaller, non-bold lettering. (Recent significant updates, additions and revisions to the site are noted further down the page.)

Recent updates, additions and revisions to this website

Late 2009 to early 2010:

-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 HERE to view/download this article (32 pages and full of illustrations). This copyrighted article by the websites author 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 gradually 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. The remainder of this "web book" and the other two are 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." It 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 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.

-Owens Bottle Company - by Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Carol Serr and Bill Lindsey. (From Bottles & Extras Magazine, January-February 2010). This is an article on the company formed to make use of the revolutionary Owens Automatic Bottle Machine in the very early 20th century.

-Southern Glass Co. - by Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, David Whitten, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey with Michael R. Miller and David Whitten. (From Bottles & Extras Magazine, November/December 2009). An article on this southern California glass maker of the early 20th century.

-Additional finish tooling information on several pages: Bottle Finishes & Closures page; Types or Styles of Finishes - Page 2; Types or Styles of Finishes - Page 3. These updates include the inclusion of several original patents for 19th century finishing tools, images of an original finishing tool, as well as revisions and refinement of the text describing the "applied" and "tooled" finishing methods.

-Rabbit Trails: The Twisted Path to Bottle Identification - by Bill Lindsey (From Bottles & Extras Magazine, May/June 2009) This is an article on a sequence of experiences by this websites author in regards to gleaning information about several mid-19th century soda water bottles.

...and lots of smaller additions, corrections, and the like always ongoing.

SEARCHING THIS WEBSITE: To do a word/phrase search of this website one must use the "Search SHA" boxes found on many of the main SHA web pages, including the Research Resources page (upper right side of that page) which links to this site. The Historic Bottle Website (HBW) has no internal search mechanism so be aware that when running a search one will also get non-HBW response links to other portions of the SHA site.

This website created and managed by:
Bill Lindsey
Bureau of Land Management (retired) - Klamath Falls, Oregon
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