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In 1880, 73 of the nation's 168 glass manufacturers made glassware (lead or lime glass). The average number of employees for this segment of glass manufacturers was 173, and the average annual value of output per plant was $131,076. [70]
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
American stained glass artists and manufacturers (2 C, 74 P) C. Corning Inc. (1 C, 32 P) T. Tiffany Studios (18 P) Pages in category "Glassmaking companies of the ...
The American glass manufacturers also had to compete with English glassmakers. By 1740, English glassmakers produced good quality window glass and some of the best lead crystal glassware available. English trade restrictions caused most of the glassware purchased in America before the American Revolutionary War to be English–made. [70]
Broadly, modern glass container factories are three-part operations: the "batch house", the "hot end", and the "cold end". The batch house handles the raw materials; the hot end handles the manufacture proper—the forehearth, forming machines, and annealing ovens; and the cold end handles the product-inspection and packaging equipment.
The Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company was the largest manufacturer of glass lamps in the United States during the early 1890s. It began operations in Fostoria, Ohio , on May 17, 1890. The plant was run by Nicholas Kopp Jr., a former chemist at Hobbs, Brockunier and Company in West Virginia .
Window by Franz Mayer & Co. for St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Franz Mayer of Munich is a German stained glass design and manufacturing company, based in Munich, Germany and a major exponent of the Munich style of stained glass, that has been active throughout most of the world for over 170 years.
The building is a leading retailing and wholesale location, hosting 20,000 visitors and tenants daily in the late 2000s. [ needs update ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Built by Marshall Field & Co. and later owned for over half a century by the Kennedy family , the Mart centralizes Chicago's wholesale goods business by consolidating architectural and interior ...