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Franciscan Ceramics are ceramic tableware and tile products produced by Gladding, McBean & Co. in Los Angeles, California, US from 1934 to 1962, International Pipe and Ceramics (Interpace) from 1962 to 1979, and Wedgwood from 1979 to 1983. Wedgwood closed the Los Angeles plant, and moved the production of dinnerware to England in 1983.
Mary K. Grant, (born Ethel May Kubishta) (April 21, 1902 – April 8, 1975) was an American industrial designer.Grant is known for her ceramic designs for Franciscan Ceramics manufactured by Gladding, McBean & Co. Grant designed several fine china and earthenware shapes for Gladding, McBean.
Ceramic Originals by Freeman-Leidy, crane figurine. Key milestones in the history of California pottery include: the arrival of Spanish settlers, the advent of statehood and subsequent population growth, the Arts and Crafts movement , Great Depression , World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep ...
Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln, California.. Charles Gladding (1828–1894) was born in Buffalo, New York, served as a first lieutenant in the Union Army during the Civil War, [3] and later moved to Chicago, where he engaged in the clay sewer pipe business.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Creative Commons-licensed books (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Free ebooks" The following 7 pages are in ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
Bernard Rackham CB FSA (26 July 1876, Lambeth, London – 13 February 1964, Liss, Hampshire [1]) was an English writer and lecturer on ceramics and stained glass and spent his career as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. [2]