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Indiana Glass Company was an American company that manufactured pressed, blown and hand-molded glassware and tableware for almost 100 years. Predecessors to the company began operations in Dunkirk, Indiana, in 1896 and 1904, when East Central Indiana experienced the Indiana gas boom.
Price on eBay: $400 MacBeth-Evans Petalware had a graceful, flower-like design that came in a variety of colors. Produced between 1930 and 1940, this Depression glass pattern features delicate ...
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 ...
The Indiana gas field was the largest in the world, and it was larger than those of Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. [24] Indiana had its own gas boom, and East Central Indiana changed from an "agricultural district" to industrial. Glassmaking was one of the industries that moved to Indiana. In 1880, the state ranked eighth in glass production.
The glass made using this formula had good enough quality that the company could compete in the high-end of the glassware market. [62] This improvement in the formula for glass was considered one of two great advances in American glassmaking during the 19th century, the other being the invention of pressing. [63]
Two large stained-glass windows installed by Hartford City Glass Company's Belgian glass workers A New England Glass Company ewer , 1840–1860 A Novelty Glass Company advertisement in 1891 An electrical insulator made by Whitall Tatum Company , circa 1922
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
During the 1890s, the Hartford City Glass Company was the third-largest window glass producer in the United States, and Sneath Glass Company was the country's largest producer of lantern globes. During the early 1900s, gas supplies gradually became depleted—and the East Central Indiana Gas Boom gradually came to an end.