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Bottled in Illinois : embossed bottles and bottled products of early Illinois merchants from Chicago to Cairo, 1840-1880 / Kenneth B. Farnsworth, John A. Walthall ; with historical research contributions by David Beeler ... [et al.].
- Title
- Bottled in Illinois : embossed bottles and bottled products of early Illinois merchants from Chicago to Cairo, 1840-1880 / Kenneth B. Farnsworth, John A. Walthall ; with historical research contributions by David Beeler ... [et al.].
- Author
- Farnsworth, Kenneth B.
- Publication
- Urbana, IL : Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | HD9624.B673 F37 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Walthall, John A.
- Description
- xxiii, 792 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps; 29 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in archaeology ; no. 6
- Uniform Title
- Studies in archaeology (Urbana, Ill.) ; no. 6.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 745-754) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Study focus -- Sources of information -- Sources of misinformation -- Study organization, format, and terminology -- Descriptive format -- Abbreviated bottle-technology terms -- Abbreviated terms for commercial-data sources -- Terms used to describe bottle color, shape, and manufacturing technology. Colors ; Embossing and stamping ; Measurements and volumes ; Manufacturing-technology terms ; Body mold lines ; Body shape and style terms ; Base shapes, kick-ups, "decorations," and mold lines ; Shoulder shape and style terms ; Neck shape and style terms ; Lip styles ; Closures -- Study limits : the 40-year period bracketing the Civil War. Why begin the study at ca. 1840? ; Why end the study at ca. 1880? -- Products packaged in embossed glass and stamped stoneware bottles ; Study completeness : late additions to the text bottle listings ; Recently discovered bottles. Aurora ; Belleville ; Bloomington ; Cairo ; Chicago ; DeKalb ; Dixon ; LaSalle ; Mendota -- Glass-factory maker's marks on Illinois embossed bottles. Pre-1860 Illinois bottle manufacturers ; Post-1860 Illinois bottle manufacturers -- Changes in embossed-bottle manufacturing technology from 1840-1880 ; Pattern of embossed-bottle use in Illinois from 1840-1880. Assemblage patterns ; Antebellum product-use pattern -- [Geographic alphabetical list of places in Illinois where bottles were found].
- ISBN
- 9781930487239 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1930487231 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011034770
- OCLC
- 752909821
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library