EAPGS

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...to foster and encourage the collection, appreciation, study, preservation, and documentation of early American pattern glassware, and its place in American life, past and present.

EAPGS Library

Nancy Bloomstrand, a member of the Trustee Board , currently maintains the portable reference library. The library is a collection of hard bound glass books, periodicals and other interesting glass literature. The library is always available at the EAPGS booth on the floor of the Eastern National Antique Show and Sale, in April and November.

This detailed list below identifies every item that is in the library. This list was recently prepared by Myrna Morr of Rochester Michigan; we extend our thanks to Myrna.

EAPGS LIBRARY INVENTORY June 2007

Publications

Fostoria Glass Collectors Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 6., August-September 2001, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter , Vol. 10, No. 1. , January 2003 , Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol 10, No. 2, February/March 2003, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 10., No. 3, April 2003 , Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 4, May/June 2003, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 5, July 2003, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 6, August/September 2003, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works " Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 8, October 2003, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 10, No.8(?), November/December 2003 Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 1, January, 2004 Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 2 , February/ March 2004, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 5, July 2004, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. " Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 6, August/September 2004, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 7 , October 2004, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 8, November/December 2004, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc. "Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 12. No. 1, Jan/Feb 2005, Orange, California
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc." Glass Works" Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 2, March/April 2005, Orange, California
" Glass Collector" Magazine, Issue Number 1, Winter, 1982
" Glass Collector" Magazine, Issue Number 2, Spring, 1982" Glass Collector" Magazine, Issue Number 5 , Winter, 1983
Heacock, William. " Collecting Glass, Volume 2" , SC, Antique Publications, Marietta, Ohio, 1985
Heacock, William. " Collecting Glass, Volume 3, SC, Antique Publications, Marietta, Ohio, 1986
Heacock, William. " Pattern Glass Preview" Newsletters, Issues 1 - 6 (undated) , Peacock Publications, Columbus, Ohio

Monographs

"Beatty, A. J. & Sons, 1860-1892, History and Products". Monograph 54, Neila and Tom Bredehoft, West Virginia Museum of American Glass, 2006
"Duncan & Miller, Catalogue 020, circa late 1908". Monograph 52, Neila and Tom Bredehoft, West Virginia Museum of American Glass, 2006
"Early American Pattern Glass Punch Bowls". Monograph 65, West Virginia Museum of American Glass, 2007
"Opalescent Glass 1883-1934". Monograph 49, Tom Felt, West Virginia Museum of American Glass, 2005
"Tygart Valley of Grafton West Virginia". Monograph 51, Neila and Tom Bredehoft, West Virginia Museum of American Glass

Reference Books

Baker, Gary E., et al. " Wheeling Glass, 1829 - 1939, Collection of the Oglebay Institute Glass Museum", SC, Wheeling, West Virginia: Oglebay Institute, 1994
Barrett, Richard Carter. " Popular American Ruby Stained Pattern Glass, SC, Benington, Vermont: Self-published, 1968
Courter, J. W. " Aladdin Electric Lamps" , SC, Kevel, Kentucky: Self-published, 1987
Courter, J. W. "Aladdin Electric Lamps Collector's Manual & Price Guide # 4" , SC, Kevel, Kentucky: Self-published, 2002
Courter, J. W. " Aladdin Electric Lamps Collector's Manual & Price Guide #21 SC , Kevel, Kentucky: Self-published, 2004
Courter, J. W. " Aladdin, The Magic Name in Lamps", Kevel, Kentucky: HC, Self-published, 1997
Eaton, Robert E. " Fenton Glass: The First Twenty-Five Years, Comprehensive Price Guide", SC, Marietta, Ohio: Glass Press/Antique Publications, Inc., 1998
Florence, Gene and Cathy with Danny Cornelius and Don Jones. "American Pattern Glass Table Sets, Identification and Value Guide" HB, Paducah, Kentucky,: Collectors Books, 2007
Gorham, C. W. "Riverside Glass Works of Wellsburg, West Virginia 1879-1907" SC Spiral Bound, Springfield Missouri, Heartlights, 1995
Heacock, William. "Encyclopedia of Victorian Pattern Glass, Book 7, Ruby Stained Glass From A - Z", SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, Inc., 1986
Heacock, William. " Fenton Glass - The First Twenty-five Years", SC, Marietta, Ohio: The Glass Press, Inc. 1994
Heacock, William. " Encyclopedia of Victorian Pattern Glass, Opalescent Glass from A - Z, Marietta, Ohio: The Glass Press, Inc., 2000
Heacock, William and Fred Brickenheuser . "Encyclopedia of Victorian Pattern Glass, U.S. Glass From A - Z, SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, 1978
Heacock, William, James Measell and Barry Wiggins. " Dugan/Diamond, The Story of the Indiana, Pennsylvania, Glass" SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, Inc., 1993
Heacock, William, James Measell, and Barry Wiggans. "Harry Northwood, The Early Years. 1881-1900" , SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, Inc., 1990
Heacock, William, James Measell, and Barry Wiggins. "Harry Northwood, The Wheeling Years, 1901 - 1925." SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, 1991
Hedrick, Ruth. "Greentown Glass - The Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company and Allied Manufacturers" , SC, Spiral bound, Lowell, Michigan: Self-published, 1959
Hicks, Joyce A . "Just Jenkins - A Pattern Guide to Pressed and Blown Glassware Made by the D.C. Jenkins Glass Co." SC, Spiral bound, Kokomo, Indiana: Self-published, 1988
Higby, Lola and Wayne. "Bryce Higbee and J. B. Higbee Glass, SC, Marietta, Ohio, The Glass Press, Inc., 1998
Hilton, Bing. "The Greentown Glass Company, History of the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company/Works" Westfield, Indiana: Lewis Hilton, 2002
Jenks, Bill, Jerry Luna and Darrel Reilly. "Identifying Pattern Glass Reproductions", HB, Radnor Pennsylvania: Wallace Homestead Book Co., 1993
Lechler, Doris and Virginia O"Neill. "Children's Glass Dishes", HB, Nashville Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1976
Lee, Ruth Webb. "Current Values of Antique Glass: The Blue Book of Valuations". HB/DJ, Massachusetts, Self-published, 1969
Lee, Ruth Webb. "Early American Pressed Glass", HB, Massachusetts, Self-published , 1933
Lee, Ruth Webb. "Price Guide to Pattern Glass" , First Edition , New York: M. Borrows & Company, 1949
Lee, Ruth Webb. "Sandwich Glass - The History of the Boston Sandwich Glass Company", HB, Third Edition, Massachusetts: Self-published, 1939
Lee, Ruth Webb. "Victorian Glass - Specialties of the Nineteenth Century", HB, Second edition, Massachusetts: Self-published, 1944
Lindsey, Bessie M. "Lore of Our Land Pictured in Glass", HB, Vol. I, Self-published, 1948
McCain, Mollie Helen. "Field Guide to Pattern Glass" HB, Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 2000
McKearin, George S. and Helen. "American Glass" HB, New York: Crown Publishers, 1941
M'Kee and Brothers. "Five Complete Glass Catalogs from 1859/60 to 1871" , SC, New York: Dover Publications/Corning Museum of Glass, 1981
Majot, Tulla.. "Coudersport Glass, 1900-1904" , SC, Marietta, Ohio: The Glass Press, Inc., 1999
Metz, Alice Hulett.. "Early American Pattern Glass", SC, Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 2000
Metz, Alice Hulett. "Much More Early American Pattern Glass" SC, Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 2000
Miller, Richard C. And John F. Solverson. " Student Lamps of the Victorian Era" SC, Marietta, Ohio: Antique Publications, 1992
Reilly, Darryl and Bill Jenks. "U.S. Glass the States Patterns an Identification and Value Guide" HB, Kingston Pennsylvania, Author! Author! Books, 1998
Schroy, Ellen Tischbein. "Warman's Glass", SC, Radnor, Pennsylvania: Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1992
Schroy, Ellen Tischbein. "Warman's Glass" Second Edition, SC, Radnor, Pennsylvania: Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1995
Schroy, Ellen Tischbein, Editor. "Warman's Pattern Glass - Value and Identification Guide, SC, Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 2001
Spillman, Jane Shadel. "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass", HB, DJ, Corning, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1981
Teal, Ron S. "Albany Glass, Model Flint Glass Company of Albany, Indiana , SC, Marietta Ohio: The Glass Press, 1997
Thuro, Catherine M. "Oil Lamps - the Kerosene Era in North America", HB, DJ, Des Moines, Iowa:Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1976
Thuro, Catherine M. " Oil Lamps II - Glass Kerosene Lamps" HB, Toronto, Collector Books/Thorncliff House, 1983
Thuro, Catherine M. "Oil Lamps 3 - Victorian Kerosene Lighting 1860 - 1900" HB, Toronto: Collector Books/Thorncliff House, 2001
Unitt, Doris and Peter. "American and Canadian Goblets", HB, Reissued. For the Love of Glass Publishing, 1994
Unitt, Doris and Peter . "American and Canadian Goblets, Volume II", Reissued. For the Love of Glass Publishing, 1994
Watkins, Laura Woodside. "Cambridge Glass - 1818 to 1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company" , HB, New York: Bramhall House, 1930
Welker, John and Elizabeth. "Pressed Glass in America - Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years 1825 - 1925" HB, DJ, Ivyland, Pennsylvania: Antique Acres Press, 1985