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Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929–1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors generally associate mass-produced glassware in pink, yellow ...
Highest listing price on eBay: $750 Hazel Atlas Blue Royal Lace stands out among Depression glass patterns, prized for its intricate design and vibrant cobalt blue hue. Produced between 1934 and ...
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Hazel-Atlas Glass Company. The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania, [1] as the merger of four companies: Hazel Glass and Metals Company (started in 1887) Atlas Glass Company (started 1896) Wheeling Metal Plant
The Macbeth-Evans Glass Company was an American glass company that created "almost every kind of glass for illuminating, industrial and scientific purposes," but is today famous for making depression glass. [1] The company was established in 1899 after a merger between the glass companies of Thomas Evans and George A. Macbeth. [1]
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States ...
The Glass–Steagall Act of 1932 expanded the powers of the Federal Reserve in an attempt to mitigate the depression. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established in 1932 to create the first public works projects to help the unemployed, and the Federal Home Loan Banks were established the same year to provide housing assistance.
The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...