The glass industry in South Boston
By: Joan E. Kaiser ; foreword by J. Garrison Stradling.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584658047
Subjects: Glass manufacture -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; Glassware -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century; Glassware -- Collectors and collecting
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by J. Garrison Stradling; title: Introduction; title: 1. An overview, 1811-1896; title: Settling South Boston, 1630-1811; title: 3. South Boston's first furnaces : South Boston Crown Glass Works, South Boston Flint Glass Works, 1811-1847; title: 4. The glass works of Thomas H. Cains : South Boston Flint Glass Works, Cains' Glass House, Phoenix Glass Works, 1812-1872; title: 5. Patrick F. Slane, America's forgotten glassmaker : a study of the American Glass Company, 1847-1857; title: 6. Deming Jarves and the Mount Washington Glass Works, c. 1840-1870; title: 7. Joshua Jenkins and the Suffolk Glass Company, 1850-1885; title: 8. Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company : John Charles DeVoy, superintendant, 1883; title: 9. Common bottles and flasks; title: 10. The window glass business; title: 11. The Dillaway family, mold makers to the glass industry; title: Acknowledgments; title: Appendix A. Hawes and Hersey's Glassware Press; title: Appendix B. Downer Kerosene Oil Company; title: Appendix C. The Siemens regenerative gas furnace; title: Notes to text; title: Notes to plates; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Foreword.