Boston was famous for window glass in later colonial times.

[Steve/sewell]

From the Gazette of The United States and Philadelphia daily advertiser we find an ad placed by Isaac Harvey for window glass
from the Boston Manufactury.The fact glass was being shipped this far tells volumes of the quantity of the glass.Isaac Harvey was a famous
Philadelphian Merchant in the late 1700s and the early 1800s.On a side note President Washington had just died December 14th 1799 less then a half year earlier.This newspaper is littered with memorial ads pertaining to his death.A nice piece of American history.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The front page in close and more ledgable.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The simple ad for the window glass.I collect old newspapers pertaing to the glass industry in the United States.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The ads for George Washingtons memory.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Another Washington ad

 

[Steve/sewell]

An ad placed by Clement Biddle.The famous Biddle relative of the Biddle of Bailey Banks and Biddle.Clement Biddle was instrumental in starting the first bank of the United States in Philadelphia.Thomas Jefferson was dead against a National bank.210 years later Jefferson was prooved right after all as witnessed by the failure of so many.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Does anyone know why in the old printed medias Newspapers,books,ect that the letter s looks like an elongated f instead?

 

[Plumbata]

Wikipedia knows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Interesting newspaper advertisements you have, by the way. How was the window glass produced back then? Poured over molten tin or lead and hardened? Were early windowpanes made in America ever created by spinning out a disc of glass or was that just a European thing?

 

[kungfufighter]

Window glass was made using both the crown and cylinder method.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Not just print media, it's just what the did. Tombstones, monuments etc. too
Here's wikipedia's answer so may may want to look some more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s