Bottles and Business in Plattsburgh, New York
Subtitle: 100 Years of Embossed Bottles as Historical Artifacts
By: Gordon Pollard.
Publisher: Clinton County Historical Association
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Plattsburgh, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Bottles -- Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Bottle industry -- Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Bottles -- Collectors and collecting -- United States.
First sentence: Most bottles are artifacts designed to be handled, and glass formed into bottles might be considered one of the most pleasing creations to help satisfy human needs.
Description: An historical and artifactual case study of embossed bottles associated with 19th and 20th century businesses of the city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York.  Includes detailed documentation and description of bottles made for 40 businesses from the late 1860s to the early 1960s.  Scale drawings of more than 180 embossed bottles associated with bottlers of beer, whiskey, soft drinks, drugstsore pharmaceuticals, and dairy products, and summary information on 34 Plattsburgh bottling companies (1863-1963), 48 drugstores (1850-1930), and 45 dairies and creameries (1915-1992).  Appendix contains information on 15 glass companies around the country that are known to have made such bottles for Plattsburgh businesses.
Notes: Includes bibliography.  The author produced a privately printed supplement to the book in 2005.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1
title: Introduction; title: The Interest of Bottles
pagenum: 1; title: The Focus on Plattsburgh
pagenum: 3; title: Researching Plattsburgh Businesses
pagenum: 7; title: Glass Bottle Production
pagenum: 9; title: Bottle Types and Closures
pagenum: 12; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 29
title: Plattsburgh Bottling Companies: Beer, Whiskey, and Soft Drinks; title: Business and Bottles
pagenum: 29; title: Bottle Variations and Company Associations
pagenum: 37; title: Embossing Errors and Oddities
pagenum: 39; title: Bottle Dating
pagenum: 41; title: Where the Bottles Came From
pagenum: 48; title: Business Descriptions
pagenum: 54; title: Bottle Illustrations
pagenum: 85; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 193
title: Plattsburgh Drugstores: Soda to Pharmaceuticals; title: Business and Bottles
pagenum: 193; title: Bottle Variations and Company Associations
pagenum: 197; title: Bottle Dating
pagenum: 200; title: Where the Bottles Came From
pagenum: 201; title: Business Descriptions
pagenum: 202; title: Bottle Illustrations
pagenum: 225; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 283
title: Plattsburgh Dairies and Creameries: Milk; title: Bottle Variations and Company Associations
pagenum: 287; title: Where the Bottles Came From
pagenum: 289; title: Bottle Dating
pagenum: 290; title: Business Descriptions
pagenum: 293; title: Bottle Illustrations
pagenum: 304; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 343
title: Conclusions and Prospects; title: Production and Dating Considerations
pagenum: 343; title: Features of Local Retailing
pagenum: 346; title: Evidence and Expectations
pagenum: 353; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 355; label: Appendix
pagenum: 363
title: Manufacturers of Plattsburgh Bottles