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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword / by J. Garrison Stradling -- Introduction -- 1. An overview, 1811-1896 -- Settling South Boston, 1630-1811 -- 3. South Boston's first furnaces : South Boston Crown Glass Works, South Boston Flint Glass Works, 1811-1847 -- 4. The glassworks of Thomas H. Cains : South Boston Flint Glass Works, Cains' Glass House, Phoenix Glass Works, 1812-1872 -- 5. Patrick F. Slane, America's forgotten glassmaker : a study of the American Glass Company, 1847-1857 -- 6. Deming Jarves and the Mount Washington Glass Works, c. 1840-1870 -- 7. Joshua Jenkins and the Suffolk Glass Company, 1850-1885 -- 8. Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company : John Charles DeVoy, superintendant, 1883 -- 9. Common bottles and flasks -- 10. The window glass business -- 11. The Dillaway family, mold makers to the glass industry -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Hawes and Hersey's Glassware Press -- Appendix B. Downer Kerosene Oil Company -- Appendix C. The Siemens regenerative gas furnace --Notes to text -- Notes to plates -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index