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Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company Records, 1851-1991

MSS-066

 

Size: 88 linear ft.

 

Provenance: Received from Libbey-Owens-FordCompany in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1996, and 1998.

Access: OPEN

Copyright: The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns.  Researchers bear full legal responsibility for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code.  The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.

 

Completed by: Barbara Shirk, Heidi Yeager, and April Dougal, January, 1992 and Marsha Weatherspoon, December, 1998.

 

 

Historical Sketch

1818          The New England Glass Company of East Cambridge, Massachusetts is founded.  New England Glass produces high-quality blown and pressed glass for home use.  Its engraved glass becomes a particular specialty.

1843          January 21  Edward Ford born in Greenville, Indiana, son of “Captain” John B Ford (1811-1903)

1854          April 17   Edward Drummond Libbey born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, son of William L. Libbey, later manager of New England Glass.

1859          January 1  Michael J. Owens born in Mason County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

1867          Captain John Ford and his sons, Edward and Emory, establish their first plate glass plant in New Albany, Indiana 

1878          The American Flint Glass workers Union founded in Pittsburgh.

1880          The Fords organize a new plate glass company at Creighton, Pennsylvania following failure of New Albany venture; the original company name, New York Plate Glass Co., was later changed to Pittsburgh Plate Glass.

1883          William L. Libbey dies; Edward takes over management of New England Glass.

1887          Falling sales of decorative glass and labor troubles lead Edward Drummond Libbey to visit other cities in search of less expensive natural gas and labor; he comes to Toledo late in the year and reaches agreement to move the factory there.

1888          August.  Michael Owens begins work at Libbey Glass Company and becomes a supervisor three months later.

1888          August 17.  First glass workers from East Cambridge arrive at Toledo’s railroad station and are warmly greeted.

1890          New England Glass begins production of electric light bulbs for General Electric. The large contract improves the company’s gloomy financial picture.

1892          New England Glass changes its name to The Libbey Glass Company.

1893          Libbey gambles on a $250,000 investment in a model glass plant at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Libbey factory attracts nationwide attention and improves sales of Libbey Glass.

1895          December 17.  Toledo Glass Company incorporated to exploit early semi-automatic glass-blowing machines of Michael J. Owens.

1897          Fords leave Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. over dispute about distributorships. Edward Ford decides to open a new plate glass factory in Toledo.

1898          Construction started on Ford plate glass plant in Rossford, Ohio.

1899          Irving W. Colburn (1861-1917), a Pennsylvania inventor, begins experiments which result in a sheet glass machine.

1899          Production of plate glass at Edward Ford’s Rossford plant begins; Edward Ford Plate Glass Company incorporated November 11.

1902          Owens and associates complete work on first fully successful automatic bottle-blowing machine (known as “Machine Number Four”); within a few years the machine’s successor (“Machine A”) revolutionizes the glass container industry.

1903          Owens Bottle Machine Company incorporated.

1904          American Flint Glass Workers Union headquarters moved to Toledo.

1906          August.  Colburn Machine Glass Co. formed. The company installs drawing machines at two factories in 1908 but goes bankrupt in 1911 before the technology is perfected.

1907          First machine-blown glass tumblers.

1907          Nicholas Building becomes headquarters for Libbey Glass and Owens bottle.

1912          Toledo Glass Company buys Colburn's patents; Colburn hired soon after.

1913          November.  Work begins on refining Colburn process at Toledo Glass experimental plant. On Thanksgiving (November 25) the first draw of sheet glass at Toledo Glass Co. takes place.

1916          Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company organized.

1917          First Libbey-Owens plant opened in Charleston, West Virginia.

1917          First machine-made glass tubing produced by process developed by Edward Danner in Toledo.

1919          Owens Bottle Machine Company changes name to Owens Bottle Company.

1920          Edward Ford dies; son George Ross Ford becomes President and Treasurer of Edward Ford Plate Glass Company.

1923          December 27.  Michael Owens dies in Toledo.

1925          Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass begins investigating laminated safety glass processes.

1925          November 13.  Edward Drummond Libbey dies in Toledo.
 
1926          Ford Plate Glass obtained license for Bicheroux process for casting plate glass through water -cooled rollers.

1928          First laminated auto safety glass produced by Libbey-Owens-Ford.

1929          Illinois Glass Co. of Alton, Illinois absorbed by Owens Bottle Co.; the new corporation is known as Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Over the next several years, Owens-Illinois, now the largest glass company in the world, purchases several smaller glass companies.

1930          Edward Ford Plate Glass Company and Libbey-Owens Glass Company merge to form Libbey-Owens -Ford Glass Company.

1930-31     Empire State Building constructed using Libbey-Owens-Ford glass.

1933          New line of tableware designed by A. Douglas Nash introduced by Libbey Glass; discontinued in 1935 because of poor sales.

1934          Owens -Illinois exhibit at Chicago “Century of Progress” fair features a glass block building with a fifty-foot tower.

1935          Owens-Illinois moves into former Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Co. building on Madison Avenue (the large illuminated O-I sign was installed in 1955).

1935          Owens-Illinois Glass Company acquires assets of Libbey Glass, which becomes a subsidiary and later an operating division.

1938          First machine-blown glass stemware produced by Libbey.

1938          Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation formed by Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass works to pursue research and development of fiberglas. Company headquarters established in Toledo, although manufacturing operations are located elsewhere.

1939          Owens-Illinois and Libbey-Owens Ford exhibit at New York World’s Fair.

1940          Modern America series of tableware, the last line of handmade Libbey Glass, released; discontinued 1943 because of war restrictions.

1943          Libbey Glass becomes an operating division of Owens-Illinois.

1946          Libbey-Owens-Ford Thermopane factory opened to manufacture insulated window glass.

1951          Declaration of Independence and Constitution sealed in Thermopane glass at National Archives.

1959          Owens-Illinois selected as one of the thirty dow-Jones Industrial Average stocks.

1960          Libbey-Owens-Ford’s new headquarters building opens in downtown Toledo. “Glass wall” architectural style used.

1966          LOF licenses float-glass process for production of plate glass from Pilkington Ltd.

1968          Libbey Glass celebrates 150th anniversary.

1969          Fiberglas Tower, headquarters building for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., completed.

1971          Plasti-Shield soft drink bottles with foam covering test-marketed by Owens-Illinois.

1982          Owens-Illinois moves into new world headquarters building at One Seagate.

1983          Owens Bottle Machine chosen as an International Historic Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

1985          Glassmaking operations of Libbey-Owens-Ford acquired by Pilkington Ltd.; LOF’s other divisions are split off and become TRINOVA Corp.

1987          Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company acquire Owens-Illinois; the Libbey division’s name is changed to Libbey Glass Incorporated.

Scope and Content Note


The records of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company range from formal minutes of the company’s board of directors to personal photos of individuals involved with the company’s history.  The materials date from 1851 to the present, and include documents on a multi-national leader in the glass industry, L-O-F’s parent company, Pilkington plc.  Major figures in the corporate entity include Edward Ford (1843-1920), Michael Joseph Owens (1859-1923), and Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925). 

            Administrative records in the collection include corporate record books from L-O-F and its predecessors:  Edward Ford Plate Glass Company (1899-1930), Toledo Glass Company (1895-1931), Libbey-Owens Glass Company (1916-1933), and other subsidiaries.  Annual reports from Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company (1930-1982) and the Pilkington Group (1988-) provide summaries of corporate activities.  They are found in boxes 4 and 5.  Corporate file records (1895-1958) deal primarily with contracts, subsidiaries, and notably a government anti-trust investigation of L-O-F (1930-1948).  Government publications are found in box 5, folders 26-28 and box 14, folders 1-10.

            Publications, speeches, and reports created by employees of L-O-F comprise a significant portion of the collection.  A manuscript copy of The Roots Grow Deep (1956), a history of L-O-F by Earl Aiken along with his research materials, as well as materials related to the publication of William Fairchild’s Fire & Sand (the second book in the L-O-F trilogy) are included in this series.  Company publications consist primarily of newsletters, including:  Batch (1939-1941), Glassic, (1939-1983), L.O.F. News and Views (1944-1953), L.O.F. News (1954-1961), OLO Echoes (1953, 1961), L.O.F. Newsletter (1969-1974), and the Shield (1970-1980).  These publications provide information on labor relations, especially management’s efforts at promoting good industrial relations.  They also feature photos of women at work during World War II.

            Publications that pertain to glass manufacturing and advertising, generally include: bibliographies (1950-1961), glass industry periodicals, and works on the career of Irving Wightman Colburn, the inventor of the Colburn process for making flat glass.  Pamphlets from the 1893 and 1934 World’s Fairs feature Libbey and Owens-Illinois displays.  Government hearing publications relating to the glass industry date from 1957 to 1969 and include United States Tariff Commission reports (see box 14, folders 1-10).

            The single largest series in the L-O-F collection focuses on sales and promotion of Libbey-Owens-Ford products and is delineated into several subseries.  There are files on 50 distributors and dealers of L-O-F products across the United States dating from the 1930s to the 1970s.  Press releases issued by the company date from 1946 to 1984.  Indexes to those releases are located in box 24, folder 13 (1976-1980), and box 25, folder 9.(1981).  Advertising yearbooks chronicle L-O-F’s print campaigns from 1932 to 1977.  Scrapbooks compiled by the advertising department date from 1851 to 1969, and include a scrapbook prepared by the Saturday Evening Post  to document L-O-F advertising in that publication (1927-1966).  These materials document promotional efforts at L-O-F and its predecessors.  They reflect changes in the national advertising industry over time, and may also be used in sociological studies of advertising.

            “Glass at Work” files comprise a large portion of the sales and promotion series and serve as a valuable source of information on the actual uses of L-O-F products, as well as the advertising department’s use of “real-life” applications of L-O-F products for promotional purposes.  These files are broken down into several categories of applications. 

            Commercial buildings files include glazings in airports (1955-75); hospitals and clinics (1945-78); hotels, motels, lodges and country clubs (1949-82); and other miscellaneous commercial settings (1948-76, n.d.).  Commercial Storefronts files include airlines offices (1947-68); apparel stores (1947-76); automotive buildings (1949-66); banks (1948-78, n.d.); drug stores (1946-58); florists (1950-65); furniture and appliance stores (1947-65); jewelry stores (1961-76);  restaurants (1949-74); theaters (1967-68); and other miscellaneous commercial storefronts (1954-67).  Public Buildings files document glass applications in churches (1958-69); libraries (1951-79); schools (1948-[78]); and other miscellaneous public buildings (1948-66, n.d.).  Residential files include privately owned homes (1943-77) as well as model homes and housing projects (1946-61).  International files document uses of L-O-F products outside the United States (1972-79, n.d.).

            Each file generally contains information on the product utilized, the name of the building or owner of the building, photographs of the structure, and dates of information in the file.  While these files are by no means comprehensive, in that they do not include every application of L-O-F products, they provide information on a wide variety of glazings from across the United States and internationally.  A set of “Glass at Work” scrapbooks (1962, 1965, 1971-72) concludes the series.

            “Glass at Work” files primarily reflect the use of the “glass wall” architectural style.  They provide photos and documents on the types of glass used in each application.  These materials may provide information for studies of the history of glass technology as well as twentieth century architectural trends.

            An entire series of the collection is devoted to divisions of L-O-F and the products created in those divisions.  These files include photographs and documents.  Major divisions include Aeroquip, Liberty Mirror, LOF Engineered Products, Inc., LOF Glass of Canada, Ltd., and Woodall Industries.  Notable products include Electrapane, patterned glass, plate glass, safety glass, Thermopane, Tuf-flex, and Vitrolite. 

            Another section of the collection includes records and photographs on several of L-O-F’s plants nationally and internationally.  These comprise files on three buildings in Toledo, Ohio; one in Italy, and others in California, North Carolina, Iowa, Illinois, West Virginia, and Louisiana.

            Subject files consist of relatively recent photos and documents on company involvement in civic programs, public relations materials, and other miscellaneous materials.

            The final series in the collection consists of materials dealing with Irving Wightman Colburn’s (1861-1917) experiments with the mechanization of flat glass manufacture.  This series includes glass plate negatives taken by Colburn [ca. 1900-1920], prints from those negatives, photograph albums, correspondence with the United States Patent Office (1908), and several scrapbooks of newsclippings (1901-1920).  Colburn’s papers could form the basis of a biographical study featuring his innovations in glass technology.  Researchers of hobbies in history will find his scrapbooks fascinating, as they document two of his other interests, photography and bicycling.  These two pasttimes were extremely popular at the turn of the century.

             Other ideas for research using the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company Records are outlined in a brochure titled Making Their Business Your Business:  The Use of Corporate Archives for Interdisciplinary Research, available at the Canaday Center.  

 

Box

Folder

 

 

 

 

 

 

S1. Corporate Record Books (x linear inches)

 

 

(Microfilm copies of these records (Box 1, Folders 1-7, Box 2, Folders 1-6, Box 3, Folders 1-8 and Box 4, Folders 1 and 2 (only)) are located in MSS-066 Audio-Visual Materials Shelf 4 #208.)

 

 

 

1

1

Edward Ford Plate Glass Company; Record Book, 1899-1909

1

2

Edward Ford Plate Glass Company; Record Book, 1910-1930

1

3

Libbey-Owens (Sheet) Glass Company; Record Book I, 1916-1919

1

4

Libbey-Owens (Sheet) Glass Company; Record Book II, 1919-1926

1

5

Libbey-Owens (Sheet) Glass Company; Record Book III, 1925-1929

1

6

Libbey-Owens (Sheet) Glass Company; Record Book IV, 1929-1933

1

7

Rossford and Toledo Railroad Company Record Book, 1898-1931

2

1

Toledo Glass Company; Record Book I, 1895-1904

2

2

Toledo Glass Company; Record Book II, 1905-1908

2

3

Toledo Glass Company; Record Book III, 1908-1912

2

4

Toledo Glass Company; Record Book IV, 1913-1926

2

5

Toledo Glass Company; Record Book V, 1927-1931

2

6

Toledo Glass Company; Meeting minutes from Record Book V, 1931

3

1

United States Sheet & Window Glass Company, 1921-1929

3

2

American Bicheroux Co.; Record Book, 1929-1931

3

3

American Bicheroux Co.; Record Book, 1931-1949

3

4

Toledo Synthetics Products, Inc., 1930-1936

3

5

Unyte Corporation, 1931-1936

3

6

Plaskon Company; Record Book, 1936-1939

3

7

Plaskon Company; Record Book, 1940-1943

3

8

Thermopane Company, 1934-1940

4

1

L-O-F Glass Fibers Company, 1954-1955

4

2

Corrulux Division Minutes, 1952-1954

4

3

Toledo Glass Company: Auditor's Reports, 1907-1914

 

 

 

 

 

S2. Annual Reports

4

4

Aeroquip, 1941-1967 (bound)

4

5

Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Co., 1917-1929

4

6

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Bound, 1930-1939

4

7

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Bound, 1940-1949

4

8*

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Bound, 1950-1959

4

9

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Loose, 1953

4

10

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Bound, 1960-1969

4

11

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Annual Report negatives, 1969

4

12

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.’ Bound, 1970-1979

4

13

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Loose, 1965; 1968-1974

4

14

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Loose, 1975-1982

4

15

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Photographs for 1978

4

16

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Photographs, n.d.

5

1

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1968

5

2

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1969

5

3

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1970

5

4

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1971

5

5

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1972

5

6

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1973

5

7

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1974

5

8

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1976

5

9

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Shareholders’ Summary, 1978

 

 

 

 

 

S3. Corporate File Records

5

10

Pilkington Group, 1988-1989

5

11

American Bicheroux Company: Correspondence, 1930-1938

5

12

American Bicheroux Company: Title Papers & Contracts: 1927-1929

5

13

American Bicheroux Company: Title Papers & Contracts: 1929-1934

5

14

American Bicheroux Company: Title Papers & Contracts: 1935-1949

5

15

American Bicheroux Company: Licenses & Agreements (w/LOF): 1926-1928

5

16

American Bicheroux Company: Licenses & Agreements (w/LOF): 1929

5

17

American Bicheroux Company: Licenses & Agreements (w/LOF): 1930-1934

5

18

American Bicheroux Company: Licenses & Agreements (w/LOF): 1935-1949

5

19

American Window Glass Company, 1921

5

20

Blairsville Glass Company, 1936-1940

5

21*

Blairsville Glass Company Blueprint, 27 July 1937

5

22

Blue Ridge Glass Corporation, 1930-1957

57

1

Company Subjects

5

23

Continental Sheet Glass Company, 1922

57

4

Corning Glass Works - Finances

57

5

Corning Glass Works - General, Labor, Laws & Regulation

57

6

Corning Glass Works - Plants & Expansion

57

7

Corning Glass Works - Personnel A-L

57

8

Corning Glass Works - Personnel M-Z

57

9

Corning Glass Works - Product News

57

10

Corning Glass Works - Products

57

11

Corning Glass Works - Products

57

12

Corning Glass Works - Products

57

2

Country Subjects

57

3

Country Subjects

57

13

Cut Up - ASG Ind 1968-1976

57

14

Cut Up - Combustion Engineering 1970-1976

57

15

Cut Up - Corning Glass Works, Dearborn, Donnelly Mirrors, DuPont

57

16

Cut Up Ford Motor Company 1968-1977

57

17

Cut Up - Gale Industries, General Electric

57

18

Cut Up - General Motors, Glaverbel

57

19

Cut Up - Globe Glass, Guardian Industries

57

20

Cut Up - Johns Manville, National Gypsum, Owens-Illinois

57

21

Cut Up - Pilkington 1968-73

57

22

Cut Up - Pilkington 1974-77

57

23

Cut Up - Rohm & Haas, Seagrave

57

24

Cut Up - Shatterproof, Sierracin, 3M

5

24

L-O-F European Companies "Status," 1923-1938

5

25

L-O-F European Companies Agreements, 1920s;1930s

5

26

L-O-F Executive Papers re: Government Investigation 1930-1939

5

27

L-O-F Executive Papers re: Government Investigation 1940; District Court Final Judgment, 1948

5

28

LOF Sheet Glass Co. - Engineering Department Experiment record book, 1921-1924

5

29

Libbey-Owens-Ford responses for Anti-Trust Hearings, [1948]

5

30

Lustraglass, 1930

60

19

Owens-Corning Financial Status, Personnel

60

20

Owens-Corning General, Plants & Expansion, Products

60

21

Owens-Illinois - Financial Status

61

1

Owens-Illinois - General Labor Relations

61

2

Owens-Illinois - Personnel A-I

61

3

Owens-Illinois - Personnel J-R

61

4

Owens-Illinois - Personnel S-Z

61

5

Owens-Illinois - Plants and Expansion

61

6

Owens-Illinois - Plants and Expansion

61

7

Pilkington - Products

61

8

Pilkington - Products

61

9

Pilkington - Subsidiaries

61

10

Pilkington - Subsidiaries

61

11

Pilkington - Subsidiaries

5

31

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1931-1937

5

32

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1938-1950

6

1

Plate Glass Export Corporation, 1935-1944

61

12

PPG - products relating to glass

61

13

PPG - products relating to glass

61

14

PPG - products relating to glass

61

15

PPG - products relating to glass

61

16

PPG - products relating to glass

61

17

PPG - products relating to glass

61

18

PPG - products relating to glass

61

19

PPG - products relating to glass

61

20

PPG - products relating to glass specific use known A-G

61

21

PPG - products relating to glass specific use known H-O

61

22

PPG - products relating to glass specific use known P-Z

6

2

Redmond & Company, 1933-1936

6

3

Releases: Occupational Disease Cases, 1934-1935

6

4

Royal Indemnity Company, 1934

6

5

Silica Products Co., 1923; 1933

6

6

Ten Mile Oil & Gas Co., 1936

6

7

Toledo Glass Co., 1916-1934

6

8

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 1: "current" contracts, 1898-1924, (1 of 4)

6

9

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 1: "current" contracts, 1898-1924, (2 of 4)

6

10

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 1: "current" contracts, 1898-1924, (3 of 4)

6

11

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 1: "current" contracts, 1898-1924, (4 of 4)

6

12

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 2: "expired" contracts, 1895-1908, (1 of 3)

6

13

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 2: "expired" contracts, 1895-1908, (2 of 3)

6

14

Toledo Glass Co. Contract Binders Vol. 2: "expired" contracts, 1895-1908, (3 of 3)

6

15

Toledo Trust Co., 1940

6

16

Triplex Safety Glass Co. of North America, 1927-1931

6

17

Triplex Safety Glass Co. of North America, 1932-1949

6

18

United Gas Pipe Line Co., 1929-1933

6

19*

United Gas Pipe Line Co., 1934-1958

6

20

United States Sheet & Window Glass Company Correspondence, 1920; 1923-1924; 1928

6

21

United States Sheet & Window Glass Company; General, 1921-1923, n.d.

6

22

United States Sheet & Window Glass Company; General, 1928-1929

6

23

Vitrolite Company, 1907; 1935

6

24

Vitrolite Sales Corporation, 1935-1939

 

 

 

 

 

S4. LOF Glass Company Documents

 

 

 

 

 

Correspondence

7

1

Boden Glass Company, 1939

7

2

Carolina Glass, 1939

7

3

MacNichol, R.S., 1969

7

4

E.F. Pease Co., 1939

7

5

Radke Family, 1940-42; 1956

 

 

 

 

 

Reports

7

6

Aiken, Earl. “Glass Prisms by LOF” (WWII), 1946

7

7

Alexander, H.M. “St. Roch Twin Grinding and Polishing,” 1952

7

8

Ashley, James M. “Is the U.S. Really Being Priced Out of World Markets?,”1962

7

9

“Background of Flat Glass Distribution,” pp. 1-53, [1940s?]

7

10

“Background of Flat Glass Distribution,” pp. 54-115, [1940s?]

7

11

“Background of Flat Glass Distribution,” pp. 116-220, [1940s?]

7

12

Baker, H.H.  “Black Book,” A-H, 1931

7

13

Baker, H.H.  “Black Book,” I-P, 1931

7

14

Baker, H.H.  “Black Book,” Q-Z, 1931

7

15

Baker, H.H.  “Chronological History of L-O-F” #4 of 4[?], June, 1945

7

16

Blue Ridge Glass Corp. “Light Diffusion and Transmission Data,” n.d.

7

17

“Distributor Committee Exhibits [?]”[1964]

7

18

“Facts on the Victory Year at Libbey-Owens-Ford ,1945 (Submitted to the Navy Department Price Adjustment Board), 1945

7

19

“Flat Glass History - 1700s-1800s, n.d.

7

20

“Flat Glass History - General Information, Flat Glass Industry, n.d.

7

21

“History of Glass Cutters at Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass in 1917”,

7

22a*

LOF Organizational Charts, 1967, n.d.

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

7

22b*

Advertising Supplement to the Blade, 10/16/60

7

23

American Ceramic Society, “Irving Wightman Colburn,” p. 31 Feb 1943

7

24

Architectural Record, October, 1960, "Executive Office Building, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.

7

25

Biggers, John D.  Oral History Transcript, 1967; 1968 (1 of 2)

7

26

Biggers, John D.  Oral History Transcript, 1967; 1968 (2 of 2)

7

27

Cazayoux, F.E. “Facts About Libbey-Owens-Ford,” (distribution copy) 1944

7

28

The Chief, Wyandot Chemicals Corporation. “Revolution in Glass,” 1960.

7

29

Colburn, George L. “The Modern Method of Producing Continuous Sheet Glass,” 1948

7

30

Corning Glass Works. “The Corning Glass Center,” 1958

7

31

Corning Glass. “This Is Glass,” [1970s-1980s?]

64

13

Facts about Libbey Owens Ford Wartime Accomplishments 1944

64

16

Facts on the Victory Year at Libbey Owens Ford 1945

8

1

Flat Glass Jobbers Association, “Glazing Manuals,” 1958, 1968.

8

2

Glenny Glass Co. “Ours By Heritage,” 1950

8

3

Harbison, Frederick and King Carr. “The Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company and the Federation of Glass, Ceramic, and Silica Sand Workers of America.” or “The Causes of Industrial Peace Under Collective Bargaining.” Case Studies #2, National Planning Association. Washington D.C., 1948.

8

4

Holscher, H.H. (Owens-Illinois). “Hollow and Specialty Glass: Background and Challenge,” (reprint from Glass Industry, June-Nov 1965)

8

5

Houghton, Arthur A., Jr. “Design Policy Within Industry as a Responsibility of Management,” Stuben Glass, Inc. 1951

8

6

Huelke, Donald F. “Striking the Windshield,” Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1967

8

7

Illinois Glass Co. “Bottles of Every Description” (General Catalogue “A”) [1915]

64

12

Libbey Owens Ford - a portfolio

64

13

Libbey Owens Ford - a portfolio

8

8

L-O-F, Industrial Relations Department. “Let’s Get Better Acquainted,” 1946, and “We of Libbey-Owens-Ford,” 1951, 1957.

8

9

L-O-F, Liberty Mirror Division, “We Must See to Fight, Not Fight to See,” [1945]

8

10

L-O-F, “Metric Conversion Tables,” 1940

8

11

L-O-F, “Inventions and Developments Which Contributed Directly to the War Program,”1944

8

12

L-O-F, [LOF Background Sales Portfolio], [1940s?]

8

13

Lindsay, Samuel S. “The Decimal Plate and Sheet Glass Calculator,” 1925

8

14

The Louisiana Foundation, n.d.

8

15

MacNichol, George P. Jr.  Public Relations file , 1920-1965

8

16

MacNichol, George P. Jr.  “Who and Where Are Your Customers?” 1957

8

17

Monsanto Magazine, “Monsanto’s House of the Future,” 1957

8

18

[Pittsburgh Plate Glass], “Bibliography of Flat Glass,” [ca 1945]

8

19

Owens-Corning, (Edward Ames), Fiberglas Bibliography, 1950

8

20

The Photoengravers Bulletin. “ Fool-Proof, Improved Brett-Guard 10 CPH For Flat Bed, Stationary Saws,” Feb 1961

8

21

Plate Glass Manufacturers of America, “Plate Glass: Nothing Else Like It,” [1937]

64

9

Personal Experiences of Bob Cox at Aeroquip

64

10

Report for a course in Manufacturing Harvard Business School LOF

64

11

Rossford, Ohio - Ford Glass Company History

8

22

Shaver, W.W. “Heat Absorbing Glass Windows,” ASHVE Transactions (reprint) 1935

8

23

State University of New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University.  Bibliographies, 1955, 1959, 1961

8

24

Tarif Des Glaces de la Manufacture Royale, n.d.

8

25

Today in Toledo, “Toledo Citizen John D. Biggers,” 1940

8

26

Walbridge, William S. American Bottles Old and New, 1920 (w/marginal comments by Richard LaFrance)

8

27

Walbridge, William S. “The Intimate Lives of Edward Drummond Libbey and Michael Joseph Owens as We Know Them,” 1933

8

28

Walbridge, William S. “Unexpected Influences May Determine the Lives and Careers of Individuals,” The Engineer, Dec 1928

64

14

Wartime Accomplishments of Libbey Owens Ford 1944

8

29

Watkins, George B. and Donald Sharp. Glossary of Terms Used in the Glass Industry, 1957

64

15

We Must See to Fight, Not Fight To See

8

30

Yaseen, Leonard C. Plant Location, 1952

 

 

 

 

 

Speeches

8

31

Biggers, Wingerter, Skeddle, 1941, 1968, 1982

 

 

 

 

 

Research materials

8

32

Aiken, Earl. The Roots Grow Deep , 1956

8

33

            Correspondence, 1908, 1939, 1953, 1954

8

34

            Ford Genealogy correspondence (Beacon-Filson), 1948-1956

8

35

            Ford Genealogy correspondence (Hieatt-Torrey), 1947-1953

8

36

            Ford Genealogy - John Baptiste, 1807-1954

8

37

            Ford Genealogy - “Captain” J.B. Ford, 1868-1955

9

1*

            Ford Genealogy - Ford Family, 1936-1950

9

2

            Ford Genealogy - Stuart/McConnell, 1902-1953

9

3

            Ford Genealogy - J. Dazzel/J. Pitcairn, 1956

9

4

            Hamlin, I.W.C., “A History of ... Flat Glass Made by Irving W. Colburn,” 1943

9

5

            Glass History (photos, pamphlets)

9

6

            New Albany, Indiana

9

7

            Miller, Harold V., “The Industrial Development of New Albany, Indiana,”

9

8

            Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 1826-1923

9

9

            Rossford, 1943-1949

9

10

            Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation, 1949

9

11

            Manuscript of Roots

9

12^

            Photos used in Roots

9

13

            Photos pulled by Aiken, but not used

9

14

            Photos of LOF founders

9

15

            Photos - Aiken’s personal

 

 

 

 

 

Fairfield, E. William. Fire and Sand  (photographs arranged by p.n. in book)

9

16

            Frontpiece-p.21

9

17

            p. 28-p. 36

9

18

            p. 40-p. 53

9

19

            p. 58-p. 69

9

20

            p. 70-p. 83

10

1

            p. 85-p. 91

10

2

            p. 94-p. 99

10

3

            p. 103-p. 115

10

4

            p. 119-p. 128

10

5

            Miscellaneous unused photos

10

6

            Original material prepared for photo, p. 70

10

7

            LOF Milestones, 1843-1937

10

8

Schofield, William. Revolution in American Glassmaking, 1880-1920.    Galley proof, 1948

63

9

Labor

63

10

Labor - Auto Industry

 

 

 

 

 

Pamphlets

10

9

Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Dec 1951

10

10

Employment Opportunities, 1967

10

11

(Blue Ridge Glass Corp.), Flat Drawn Window Glass . . . [1940s]

10

12

Miscellaneous

10

13

Opportunities booklet, [1960s]

10

14

World’s Fair, 1893, 1934

10

15

Product and Factory Directories, 1970, 1974

 

 

 

 

 

Newsletters

11

1

Batch: Loose, 1939 - 1941

11

2

Batch: Bound, 1939

11

3

Batch: Bound, 1940

11

4

Batch: Bound, 1941

11

5

Glassic: Loose, Jul 1939 - 1943

11

6

Glassic: Loose, 1944 - 1949

11

7

Glassic: Loose, 1950 - 1954

11

8

Glassic: Loose, 1955 - 1959

11

9

Glassic: Loose, 1960 - 1961

11

10

Glassic: Loose, 1962 - 1963

11

11

Glassic: Loose, 1964 - 1965

11

12

Glassic: Loose, 1966

11

13

Glassic: Loose, 1967 - 1968

11

14

Glassic: Loose, 1969 - 1970

11

15

Glassic: Loose, 1971 - 1972

11

16

Glassic: Loose, 1973 - 1974

11

17

Glassic: Loose, 1975 - 1978

11

18

Glassic: Loose, 1979 - 1980

11

19

Glassic: Loose, 1981 - 1983

11

20

Glassic: Bound, 1966 - 1968

11

21

Glassic: Bound, 1969 - 1970

11

22

Glassic: Bound, 1971 - 1972

12

1

Glassic: Bound, 1973 - 1974

12

2

Glassic: Bound, 1975 - 1976

12

3

Glassic: Bound, 1977 - 1978

12

4

Glassic: Bound, 1979 - 1981

12

5

L.O.F. News and Views: Loose, 1944 - 1949

12

6

L.O.F. News and Views: Loose, 1950 - 1953

12

7

L.O.F. News and Views: Bound, 1944 - 1949

12

8

L.O.F. News and Views: Bound, 1950 - 1953

12

9

L.O.F. News: Loose, 1954

12

10

L.O.F. News: Loose, 1955

12

11

L.O.F. News: Loose, 1956

12

12

L.O.F. News: Loose, 1957

12

13

L.O.F. News: Loose, 1958-1961

12

14

L.O.F. News: Bound, 1954 - 1955

12

15

L.O.F. News: Bound, 1956 - 1959

12

16

L.O.F. Newsletter,  May 1969 - 1974

12

17*

LOF PAC (Political Action Committee) Newsletter mockup, [1988]

12

18

OLO Echoes , 1953, 1961

12

19*

LOF Summer Newsletter (Economic Warfare Art) mockup, n.d.

13

1

The Shield: :Bound, 1970

13

2

The Shield: :Bound, 1971

13

3

The Shield: :Bound, 1972

13

4

The Shield: :Bound, 1973

13

5

The Shield: :Bound, 1974

13

6

The Shield: :Bound, 1975-1976

13

7

The Shield: :Bound, 1977

13

8

The Shield: :Bound, 1978

13

9

The Shield: :Bound, 1979

13

10

The Shield: :Bound, 1980

13

11

Shield Story List, [ca. 1970s]

13

12

Shield  Readership Survey, [ca 1970s]

13

13

Newsletters - Misc. Photographs, [ca. 1970s]

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Documents

63

29

Tariff

63

30

Tariff

64

1

Tariff

64

2

Tariff

13

14

U.S. Tariff Commission, "Flat Glass and Related Glass Products," 1937

13

15

U.S. Tariff Commission, “Competitive Problems of Independent Glass Dealers, 1958

13

16

U.S. Tariff Commission, “The Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965”

13

17

U.S. Tariff Commission, "Operation of the Trade Agreements Program," 1966

13

18

U.S. Tariff Commission, "Sheet Glass (Blown or Drawn Flat Glass)," 1967

13

19

U.S. Tariff Commission, "Summaries of Trade and Tariff Information," 1968

14

1

U.S. Tariff Commission, "Flat Glass and Tempered Glass," 1969

14

2

U.S. Government Suit, newsclippings, 1970-1971

14

3

Hearing Statements by J. M. Ashley, 1964; 1968

14

4

"Future of U. S. Foreign Trade Policy" (LOF Brief)

14

5

"Flat Glass: A Report on the Supply of Flat Glass," The Monopolies Commission, House of Commons, London, 1968

 

 

 

 

 

Scrapbooks

14

6

History of Glass, (1 of 4), ca. 1935-1956

14

7

History of Glass, (2 of 4), ca. 1935-1956

14

8

History of Glass, (3 of 4), ca. 1935-1956

14

9

History of Glass, (4 of 4), ca. 1935-1956

59

20

Advertising & Awards, Distributors, Gas Search

59

21

Lawsuits, Stock, Tax Policy

59

22

General P&E, California, Canada

59

23

Charleston, East Toledo

59

24

General

59

25

General

59

26

Financial Analysis

59

27

Financial Analysis

60

1

Executive Office, Italy, Ottawa Ill, Laurinburg, NC, Mason City

60

2

Mexico, Ottawa, Rossford, Sherman TX, Shreveport, Technical Center Landfill Wastes

60

3

Labor & Unions

60

4

Labor & Unions

60

5

Plate Glass, Prices, Public Transportation, Solar Research, STOCE,

60

6

Tuf-Flex, Vari-Tran, Vigilpane, Vitrolite, Vitrolux

60

7

Product News

60

8

Product News

60

9

Product News

60

10

Product News

60

11

Product News

60

12

Product Uses A-E

60

13

Product Uses F-L

60

14

Product Uses M-Z

60

15

Sales & Earnings

60

16

Sales & Earnings

60

17

Subsidiaries

60

18

Subsidiaries

14

10*

Newsclippings, 1919-1924

14

11^

Newsclippings, 1924-1942

14

12

Newsclippings, 1940-1949

14

13

Newsclippings, 1950-1959

14

14

Newsclippings, 1960-1980

14

15

Newsclippings, Pilkington Glass, 1965-1968

64

17

Newsclippings - FTC ruling on Commercial 1963

64

18

Newsclippings - History of Glass

64

19

Newsclippings - Your Home "Neutral Colors Added to Glass

64

20

Newsclippings - Tariff 1962

64

21

Newsclipping - Mirror 1959

64

22

Newsclipping - John Ford History

 

 

 

 

 

S5. Sales and Promotion

 

 

 

 

 

Department Conferences and Meetings

14

16

Department Conferences and Meetings , Jul 1941    

14

17

Department Conferences and Meetings, Mar 1949               

14

18

Department Conferences and Meetings, Feb 1951

14

19

Department Conferences and Meetings, Feb 1953

14

20

Department Conferences and Meetings, Feb 1954

14

21

Department Conferences and Meetings, Sep 1956

14

22

Department Conferences and Meetings, Jun 1960

14

23

Department Conferences and Meetings, 1961

14

24

Department Conferences and Meetings, Jan 1962 (1 of 2)

14

25

Department Conferences and Meetings, Jan 1962 (2 of 2)

14

26

Department Conferences and Meetings, May 1969

 

 

 

 

 

Distributors/Dealers  (Note: all distributor files contain photographic material except those in italics.)

14

27

Distributors: Acme Glass Co., Orlando, FL, Dec. 1952

14

28

Distributors: Adrian Glass Co., Adrian, MI, Oct. 1958

14

29

Distributors: Arrow Glass Co., Houston, TX, Dec. 1959

14

30

Distributors: Arrow Glass Co., Schenectady, NY, Jan. 1955

14

31

Distributors: Art Plate Glass & Mirror, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 1956

14

32

Distributors: Bennett’s, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 1960

14

33

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Atlanta, GA, Sept. 1959

14

34

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Fort Worth, TX, Mar. 1958

14

35

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Memphis, TN, Nov. 1948

14

36

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Richmond, VA, Sept. 1954

14

37

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Shreveport, LA, May 1951

14

38

Distributors: Binswanger & Co., Little Rock, AR, Nov. 1959

14

39

Distributors: Bogardus Wilson, Ltd., n.d.

14

40

Distributors: Building Service, Inc., Billings, MT, 1956

14

41

Distributors: Cadillac Glass Co., Cleveland, OH, Dec. 1954

14

42

Distributors: Cadillac Glass Co., Detroit, MI, Sept. 1947

15

1

Distributors: Christopher Glass Co., San Jose, CA, April 1950

15

2

Distributors: Cobbledick-Kibble Glass Co., San Jose, CA, Aug. 1952

15

3

Distributors: Cook Paint & Varnish, Kansas City, MO, Jan. 1947

15

4

Distributors: Elgin Glass & Mirror, Elgin, IL. Kim/ 1952

15

5

Distributors: Frank Miller Glass Co., Oakland, CA, Aug.1946

15

6

Distributors: Hooker Glass & Paint, Wauwatosa, WI, n.d.

15

7

Distributors: Interstate Glass Co., Omaha, NE, Jun. 1956

15

8

Distributors: LaMesa Glass & Paint Co., LaMesa, CA, Dec. 1946

15

9

Distributors: Lawrence Plate & Window Glass Co., Lawrence, MA., Jan. 1958

15

10

Distributors: Lockwood Glass Co., Ottawa, IL, 1951

15

11

Distributors: M. Cach Glass Co., Cedar Rapids, IA, Sept. 1962

15

12

Distributors: Modern Glass Co., Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 1960

15

13

Distributors: Nurre Glass Companies, Inc. Memphis, TN, Apr. 1957

15

14

Distributors: Ohio Plate Glass Co., Dayton, OH, May 1953

15

15

Distributors: Pritchard Paint & Glass Co., Miami, FL, Oct. 1951

15

16

Distributors: Red Spot Paint & Varnish, Evansville, IL, Feb. 1947

15

17

Distributors: Royal Glass & Millwork, Englewood, NJ , Nov. 1956

15

18

Distributors: Royal Glass & Mirror, Dallas, TX, Jan. 1956

15

19

Distributors: Samuels Glass Co., San Antonio, TX, May 1950

15

20

Distributors: San Diego Glass & Paint, National City, CA, Nov. 1955

15

21

Distributors: San Diego Glass & Paint, Pacific Beach, CA, Oct. 1953

15

22

Distributors: San Diego Glass & Paint Co., San Diego, CA, Feb. 1946

15

23

Distributors: Schall Glass Co., Buffalo, NY, Dec. 1952

15

24

Distributors: Schroeder Paint & Glass Co., Detroit, MI, 1955

15

25

Distributors: Southern Glass Co., Augusta, GA, Sept. 1948

15

26

Distributors: Standard Glass & Paint, Des Moines, IA, Sept. 1948

15

27

Distributors: Stewart-Casey Glass Co., Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 1951

15

28

Distributors: Syracuse Glass Co. Syracuse, NY, Sept.1953

15

29

Distributors: Toledo Plate & Window Glass Co., Toledo, OH, June 1959

15

30

Distributors: United Plate Glass Co., Pittsburgh, PA, July 1955

15

31

Distributors: Vanfax, Montreal, Canada, n.d.

15

32

Distributors: Western Glass & Mirror, Big Spring, TX, Feb. 1951

15

33

Distributors: William Glenny Glass Co., Cincinnati, OH, Dec. 1951

15

34

Distributors: William M. Bird & Co., Charleston, SC, Oct. 1957

 

 

 

 

 

Distributors/Dealers Subject Files

15