Historical References
- Boyd, Andrew and William H. Boyd (1874) Trenton City Directory. Syracuse, New York and Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
- Fitzgerald, Thomas. F. (1880-1883) Fitzgerald’s Mercer County Directory. Trenton, New Jersey.
- Harney, William J. (1929) Trenton’s First Potteries. In: Sunday Times Advertiser (7/7/29, 7/14/29, 7/21/29, and 7/28/29), Trenton, NJ.
- Mains, B. W. and T. F. Fitzgerald (1877) Mains and Fitzgerald’s Trenton, Chambersburg and Millham Directory. Trenton.
- Metcalf, Edwin S. (1870) Trenton Directory. Webb Brothers & Co., Providence, Rhode Island.
- J.H. Lant & Co. (1868-1869) The Trenton Directory. Trenton, New Jersey.
- Slade, Charles H. (1871) Trenton Directory. Webb Brothers & Co.
- Trenton Board of Trade (1900) Industrial Trenton and Vicinity. George A. Wolf Publishers, Wilmington, Delaware.
- Trenton Historical Society (1929) A History of Trenton, 1679-1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable Town with Links in Four Centuries. 2 vols. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
- Woodward, E. M. and John F. Hageman (1883) History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Wall, J. P. (n. d.) History of the Potteries of Trenton, NJ. Paper on file, Trenton Public Library, Trenton.
- Webb & Fitzgerald (1867-1869) The Trenton Directory. New York.
Trenton References
- Denker, Ellen (1989) Lenox China: Celebrating a Century of Quality 1889-1989. Lenox, Inc. Trenton, NJ.
- Goldberg, David J. (1983) Preliminary Notes on the Pioneer Potters and Potteries of Trenton, New Jersey. [Revised 1998]. Trenton Museum Society. Book Review
- Holmes, George Sanford (1924) Lenox China: The Story of Walter Scott Lenox. Lenox, Inc., Trenton, New Jersey.
- Quigley, Mary Alice and Collier, David E. (1984) A Capital Place: The Story of Trenton. Trenton Historical Society and Windsor Publications, Inc., Woodland Hills, California.
- Newark Museum Association (1914) The Work of The Potteries of New Jersey: From 1685 to 1876 and Marks of New Jersey Potteries. Newark Museum Association, Newark, New Jersey.
- Stern, Marc Jeffrey (1994) The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850-1922. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick.
Ceramic References
- Atterbury, Paul J. and Ellen P. Denker (1999) 20th Century Ceramics: A Collector’s Guide to British and North American Factory Produced Ceramics. Antique Collector’s Club.
- Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney (1989) American Porcelain, 1770-1920. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
- Hamer, Frank and Janet Hamer (1986) The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York.
- Lehner, Lois (1988) Lehner’s Encyclopedia of U.S. Marks on Pottery, Porcelain & Clay. Collector’s Books, Paducah, Kentucky.
- Maddock, Archibald M. (1962) The Polished Earth: A History of the Pottery Plumbing Fixture Industry in the United States. Privately published, Trenton, NJ.
- Mitchell, James (1972) Ott and Brewer: Etruria in America. Winterthur Portfolio 7, edited by Ian M. G. Quimby, pp. 217-228. University Press of Virgina, Charlottesville.
- Mitchell, James (1977) Industrial Pottery of the United States. Northeast Historical Archaeology 6(1-2):14-20.
- Nottle, Diane (1997) Beauty, Utility & Paychecks, All Built on a Base of Clay. In: The New York Times, 9 November.
- Schneider, M. (1999) Majolica. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Atglen, Pennsylvania.
- Snyder, J.B. and L. Bockol (1994) Majolica American and European Wares. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Atglen, Pennsylvania. www.schifferbooks.com/antiques/
- Stradling, J. G. (1996) The Southern Porcelain Company of Kaolin South Carolina: A Reassessment. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 22(2):1-39.
- Thorn, Jordan C. (1947) Handbook of Old Pottery and Porcelain Marks. Tudor Publishing Company, New York, New York.
- Van Hoesen, W.H. (1973) Crafts and Craftsmen of New Jersey. Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Young, Jennie J. (1879) The Ceramic Art: A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain. Harper & Bros., New York, New York.
To find out more information about the pottery industry in Trenton, please visit the Trenton City Museum website.