"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.

In 1797 a list of "Apprentices and Freedom" was advertised: "Belcher Zachariah rule maker Purchase knife maker Freedom 1797." Zachariah Belcher married Martha Harborne and they have six sons and three daughter who thrive. With the Napoleonic Wars over in Europe and the English Industrial Revolution and the Belcher Rule business underway in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the state of the economy and the quality of life is at issue as machines have been replacing workers, sowing strife and hardship in England. Zachariah and Martha Belcher make a decision to commit their family to America. Five sons and a married daughter leave Sheffield for New York and New Jersey in the 1820's never to be seen again by their parents or first born, John Belcher, "Iron Man" of the family. This book brings to light my family genealogy as well as a century long family labor in Rule Making to find success and happiness through "Belcher Brothers & Cos." Not all the Belchers and their descendants worked the family business as they follow their own ways to self-actualize beyond the New York City and New Jersey area. My great grandfather was a farmer in Duxbury, Massachusetts and then bookkeeper for Oliver Edes & Son, zinc manufacturers in neighboring Plymouth. My grandfather, Arthur William Belcher, grew up with his siblings in Plymouth, graduating from Harvard College in the Class of 1904 and later earned an M.A. from Colombia returning to the Belcher Brothers home area in Essex County, New Jersey as Principal of Newark, New Jersey's South Side High School 1929-1949.

Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.