Big Ware Turners: The History and Manufacture of Pennsylvania Stoneware

Documentation of 300 large and small stoneware operations which flourished in 43 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. Information available for scholars, historians, and collectors. The role of women in the state's potteries, the impact of the Civil War on stoneware manufacture and the ways in which potteries coped with fire and flooding are all represented in this book. Many representative pieces of stoneware illustrated in color, maps, drawings, period advertisements and old documents accent the text.Schaltenbrand, Phil is the author of 'Big Ware Turners: The History and Manufacture of Pennsylvania Stoneware', published 2002 under ISBN 9780974581903 and ISBN 0974581909.