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At the Century of Progress Exposition in 1934 in Chicago, Haeger Potteries' exhibit included a working ceramic factory where souvenir pottery was made. [1] In 1934, Royal Arden Hickman (1893–1969) joined the firm to design a line of artware sold under the brand name "Royal Haeger". [2] Hickman was the chief designer from 1938-1944. [2]
Garden City Pottery was founded in 1902 in San Jose, California, with an office and manufacturing facility on 560 North Sixth Street.Like many Californian potteries of that period, their original product lines focused on commercial tile and pipe, sanitary and gardenware products, and by the 1920s, Garden City was the largest pottery in Northern California.
McDade Pottery was the largest, longest-lived and most prolific of a series of potteries that manufactured utilitarian stoneware in Bastrop County, Texas, beginning in the 19th century. The pottery is the most successful business ever to exist in the town of McDade.
At the time of the archaeological surveys in the 1970s, the Texas Historical Commission named the Kirbee Kiln Site as the largest groundhog kiln that had then been excavated in Texas, and it remains one of the largest ever recorded in the American South. [3] It measured 39 feet (12 m) across and 8 to 10 inches wide and was constructed of brick.
Haeger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Annie Haeger (born 1990), American Olympic sailing contestant; Charlie Haeger (1983–2020), American ...
Doulton Lambeth bowl by Agnete Hoy circa 1956. Agnete Hoy (2 November 1914 – 1 April 2000), also known as Anita Hoy, was an English artist potter who managed successfully to create a bridge between industrial ceramics and work of the studio potters.
Hall China was founded on August 14, 1903, by Robert Hall, in the former West, Hardwick and George Pottery facility, following the dissolution of the two-year-old East Liverpool Potteries Company. He began making dinnerware and toilet seats, but soon found that institutional ware such as bedpans, chamber pots and pitchers was more profitable.
A map of Texas, USA, depicting Mineola. Rufus Cornelius Hickman was born in 1922 in Mineola, Texas. [1] Towards the end of the 1920s, during the Great Depression, his family, consisting of his father and brother, relocated to Dallas in order for his father, a railroad Pullman, to find work as a cook at the Baker Hotel.