The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections The University of Toledo Finding Aid John L. Lewis Papers MSS-201 |
Size: 4 linear feet
Provenance: John L. Lewis
Access: Open
Related Collections: Libbey-Owens-Ford Collection, MSS-066
Processing Note:
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: Heather Kendall, October 2005. Revised by Kim Brownlee, April & December 2006
Biographical Sketch
Mr. Lewis was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Toledo University in February 1952. He began working for Libbey-Owens-Ford on a part-time basis beginning in April 1947. After graduating from college he became a full-time draftsman in the Toledo Technical Division. In March 1955 he was promoted to Furnace Designer, and was promoted again in 1961 to Assistant Plant Engineer at the Shreveport, Louisiana, plant. He worked for LOF at Charleston, West Virginia, Shreveport, and Toledo. He retired in 1989.
Scope and Content Note
This material was collected by Mr. John L. Lewis during his career with Libbey-Owens-Ford. The collection contains company material, printed material, photos and audio-visual material, blueprints, drawings and technical material. Also included are patents, subject files, and artifacts.
Series Descriptions
S1 |
Company Material Contains annual reports, company announcements, company history, employee telephone directories and company events. |
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S2 |
Printed Material Contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, magazine, newsletters, and pamphlets covering a wide variety of topics
including the closing of the Charleston, West Virginia, plant, and the City of Toledo's efforts to keep LOF inside of the
city limits. |
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S3 |
Photographs and Audio-Visual Material Contains photos of the Charleston, West Virginia, Shreveport, Louisiana, and East Toledo, Ohio, plants. Also included are
photos of furnaces, machines, and employees. (Note: Additional photographs will occasionally be found elsewhere
in the collection) |
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S4 |
Blueprints, Drawings, and Technical Material This series contains blueprints and plot plans of the Charleston, Shreveport, and East Toledo plants. Also included are
blueprints of machines and devices that were used in the process of making flat glass. The technical material includes
information on various furnaces used in Shreveport and Charleston, and other various machines. |
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S5 |
Patents Contains patents for processes that were used to build and create flat or float glass at the various plants. Arranged alphabetically by title. |
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S6 |
Subject Files Contains files on the Charleston, Laurinburg, Ottawa, and Shreveport plants. Also more information is provided on the history of glass making, furnaces, and float glass. Arranged alphabetically by subject. |
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S7 |
Artifacts and Personal Items Contains samples of colored glass and small sheets of flat glass from various plants, several employee pins and badges, and a thickness gauge. Arranged alphabetically. |
Folder List
Box |
Folder |
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S1 Company Material |
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Annual Report 1983 |
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2 |
Annual Report 1984 |
1 |
3 |
Annual Report 1985 |
1 |
4 |
Annual Report 1988 |
1 |
5 |
Appreciation Dinner programs, 1956-70 |
1 |
6 |
Appreciation Dinner programs, 1971-83 |
1 |
7 |
Company announcement and communiqués |
1 |
8 |
Company history |
1 |
9 |
Decision 88" |
1 |
10 |
Employee manuals |
1 |
11 |
Employee speeches: |
1 |
12 |
Employee telephone and address directories, 1940s-1970s |
1 |
13 |
Employee telephone and address directories, 1980s & undated |
1 |
14 |
Employee telephone directories, undated |
1 |
15 |
Executive Dining Room menu |
1 |
16 |
Informational booklets |
1 |
17 |
Marketing department organizational chart |
1 |
18 |
Press releases |
1 |
65 |
Report to Shareholders, September 30, 1965 |
1 |
19 |
Seniority administration and department promotion |
1 |
20 |
Standards of business conduct |
1 |
66 |
Stock report, Standard & Poor's, 1965, Vol. 32, No. 89 |
1 |
21 |
Tariff Commission testimony |
1 |
22 |
Toledo Ceramic Award 1974-1986 |
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S2: Printed Material |
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Subseries A: Newspaper clippings |
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1 |
23 |
Advertisements |
1 |
24 |
Britain – Business |
1 |
25 |
Business |
1 |
26 |
Charleston |
1 |
27 |
China |
1 |
28 |
Company History |
1 |
29 |
Company News |
1 |
30 |
East Toledo |
1 |
31 |
Fight to Keep LOF in Toledo |
1 |
32 |
Furnaces |
1 |
33 |
Haddad Mall/ Kanawha City (former Charleston plant) |
1 |
34 |
Hancock Tower |
1 |
36 |
Kanawa City (suburb of Charleston) |
1 |
37 |
Laurinburg, North Carolina Plant |
1 |
38 |
Miscellaneous |
1 |
35 |
Nippon purchase of Pilkington |
1 |
39 |
Obituaries |
1 |
40 |
Ottawa, Illinois Plant |
1 |
41 |
People – employees |
1 |
42 |
Reprints |
1 |
43 |
Rossford |
1 |
44 |
Shreveport closing, 1971 |
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45 |
Sister Glass City |
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Subseries B: Magazine Articles |
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1 |
47 |
Armstrong Cork Company |
1 |
48 |
Company news |
1 |
49 |
Float and plate glass |
1 |
50 |
Glass facilities/buildings/storage |
1 |
42 |
Glass melting |
1 |
51 |
Glass – metal bonding |
1 |
67 |
Glass tank construction and repair |
1 |
68 |
Johns Manville headquarters |
1 |
52 |
New innovations |
1 |
53 |
People - employees |
1 |
54 |
Research on glass |
1 |
55 |
Rear view mirrors |
1 |
56 |
Safety glass |
1 |
57 |
Sandia Laboratories |
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Subseries C: Magazines |
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1 |
58 |
American Engineer, October 1961, Nyquist article |
1 |
46 |
The Glass Industry, September 1922, article about formation of Shreveport plant (photocopy) |
1 |
60 |
Glassic: |
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61 |
National Glass Budget: |
1 |
62 |
The Engineer, December 1928 |
1 |
63 |
The Voice, February 1926 & First Quarter 1976, articles about Libbey's creation of the art museum |
1 |
64 |
Toledo Technical Topics, December 1960 & April 1968 |
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Subseries D: Company Publications |
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2 |
1 |
The Batch 1939 |
2 |
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The Batch 1940 |
2 |
3 |
The Batch 1941 |
2 |
4 |
Glass Connection |
1 |
59 |
Glass the Miracle Worker, 1965 original & 1979 revision |
2 |
16 |
LOF Glass News |
2 |
5 |
LOF Glass People |
2 |
6 |
LOF News 1956-61 |
2 |
7 |
LOF News 1986-87 |
2 |
8 |
LOF News 1988 |
2 |
9 |
LOF News 1989 |
2 |
10 |
LOF News 1990-91 |
2 |
11 |
LOF News 1992 |
2 |
12 |
LOF News 1993 |
2 |
13 |
LOF News 1994 |
2 |
14 |
LOF News 1995 |
2 |
15 |
LOF News 1996-97 and one without year labeled |
2 |
18 |
LOF News (informational flyers for posting), various dates from 1980-84 |
2 |
17 |
LOF Update 1981-82 and 1988 |
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20 |
Pamphlets: |
2 |
19 |
Techline |
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Subseries E: Miscellaneous |
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64 |
Pamphlets: |
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65 |
Suspended Refractory Design for Glass Furnaces, by M.H. Detrick Co., paper given at the 66th annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society |
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S3: Photos and Audio-Visual Material |
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Subseries A: Photos |
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2 |
21 |
Aerial view Charleston |
2 |
22 |
Aerial view of East Toledo |
2 |
23 |
Aerial views of Shreveport 1945-1956 |
2 |
24 |
Batch mixing car |
2 |
25 |
Building of Toledo tower |
2 |
26 |
Campaign #20 – Furnace #8 |
2 |
27 |
Campaign #16 – Furnace #10 |
2 |
28 |
Charleston 1920s-1930s |
6^ |
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Charleston factory |
7^ |
2 |
Charleston plant, aerial view |
2 |
29 |
Chimney #9 – Charleston |
2 |
30 |
Closing of Shreveport |
2 |
31 |
Cold repair Charleston Furnace #8 |
2 |
32 |
Cold Repair Furnace #14 1965 – Shreveport |
2 |
33 |
Construction Furnace #1 – Charleston |
2 |
34 |
Continuous pour – Shreveport batch silo and miscellaneous |
2 |
36 |
East Toledo factory |
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40 |
East Toledo plate glass furnace |
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37 |
East Toledo tank design |
2 |
38 |
Employees – manual made cylinder glass |
2 |
39 |
Employees – Shreveport (Homer Crump and group photo of construction workers) |
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35 |
Extracting pot from kiln – Charleston |
2 |
41 |
Firewagon – Shreveport |
2 |
42 |
For sale signs – Charleston |
2 |
43 |
Furnace #3-C.R. - #13 – Charleston |
2 |
44 |
Furnace #12 – Charleston |
2 |
45 |
Laurinburg, North Carolina plant, light-up, April 1973 |
2 |
46 |
LOF Cubs |
2 |
47 |
LOF Board of Directors at Tech. Center, inspection tour |
2 |
48 |
Machine #6 – Charleston |
2 |
49 |
Ottawa, Illinois, tourists from University of Chicago |
2 |
50 |
Pot job (1B) – Shreveport |
2 |
51 |
Rossford, Edward Ford plant and recent LOF |
7^ |
1 |
Shreveport 1950s |
2 |
52 |
Shreveport 1960s |
2 |
53 |
Shreveport before 1945 |
2 |
54 |
Shreveport chimney unknown |
2 |
55 |
Shreveport factory |
2 |
56 |
Shreveport Machine #5 |
2 |
57 |
Shreveport port signs |
2 |
58 |
Silo Debris – 1992- East Toledo |
2 |
59 |
Silo for Furnace #3 and Furnace #3 – Shreveport |
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1 |
U.S. Sheet and Window Glass Company |
2 |
60 |
Window glass manufacturing – Charleston |
2 |
61 |
Wood model of proposed CX34 Machine- Shreveport |
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Subseries B: Audio Visual Material |
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2 |
62 |
Remember MacCorkle Ave and 57th Street (DVD) |
2 |
63 |
VHS Videotape |
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S4: Blueprints, Drawings, and Technical Material |
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Subseries A: Blueprints and Drawings |
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3 |
1 |
Air flotation roll |
3 |
2 |
Batch and cullet unloading study – Shreveport |
3 |
3 |
Batch mixer car – Shreveport |
3 |
4 |
Buffing roll brush |
6^ |
3 |
Charleston factory blueprints |
6^ |
4 |
Charleston factory floor plan and specs |
7^ |
1 |
Charleston plant |
7^ |
2 |
Charleston plant layout, lower floor, 1945 |
7^ |
2 |
Charleston plant layout, upper floor, 1945 |
3 |
5 |
Charleston plot plan |
3 |
6 |
Chimney plot plan – Charleston |
3 |
7 |
Colburn experiment 18 |
3 |
8 |
Continuous down pouring glass machine |
3 |
9 |
Continuous sheet drawing machine with endless chains and edge cups |
3 |
10 |
Continuous vertical sheet glass drawing machine |
3 |
11 |
Cutter table |
3 |
12 |
East Toledo plot plan |
3 |
13 |
Furnace #12 – Charleston |
3 |
14 |
Gelsenkirchen tank plan |
3 |
15 |
Heat distribution in a glass furnace |
3 |
16 |
Kanawa City plan |
3 |
17 |
LeFax drawings folder 1 |
3 |
18 |
LeFax drawings folder 2 |
7^ |
2 |
LOF Glass Co., Rossford, Ohio, plant layout, 1931 (photocopy) |
3 |
19 |
LOF process/ Fourcault process |
3 |
20 |
Loaded glass handling buck |
3 |
21 |
Merry-go-round dipworm |
3 |
22 |
Pot kilns – Charleston |
7^ |
2 |
Roll press for fibrous rolls, Shreveport misc. Lehr asbestos roll press, SM-030 |
3 |
23 |
Self-propelled traveling elevator – Shreveport |
3 |
24 |
Sheet glass cutter |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-027 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-028 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-029 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-030 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-031 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-032 |
7^ |
2 |
Sheet glass cutter, CX-16-033 |
3 |
25 |
Shreveport plant |
3 |
26 |
Shreveport city plan |
3 |
27 |
Shreveport cullet furnace tunnels/Belgium #2 furnace |
3 |
28 |
Shreveport plot plan |
3 |
29 |
Sketches by Mr. Lewis |
3 |
30 |
Unidentified |
3 |
31 |
24gathering conveyor – Shreveport |
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Subseries B: Technical Material |
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3 |
32 |
Charleston Productions Data |
3 |
33 |
Furnace Inspection Report Charleston Furnace # 12 Campaign #18 |
3 |
34 |
Furnace Inspection Report Shreveport Furnace #2 Campaign #14 |
3 |
35 |
Furnace Life - Charleston |
3 |
36 |
Furnace Life – Shreveport |
3 |
37 |
Heating for CX-32 Pot |
3 |
38 |
Pot Fabrication |
3 |
39 |
Shreveport Furnace Campaigns |
3 |
40 |
Shreveport Glass Stock Record |
3 |
41 |
Window Glass Manufacturers |
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S5: Patents |
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3 |
42 |
Annealing Lehr Patented: January 5, 1937 #2,066,376 |
3 |
43 |
Apparatus and Method of Drawing Sheet Glass |
3 |
44 |
Apparatus for bending Continuous Sheet Glass |
3 |
45 |
Apparatus for Dipping Sheet Glass |
3 |
46 |
Apparatus for Drawing Sheet Glass |
3 |
47 |
Apparatus for Forming Sheet Glass |
3 |
48 |
Apparatus for Making Sheet Glass |
3 |
49 |
Apparatus for Producing Sheet Glass |
3 |
50 |
Apparatus for Stretching Sheet Glass |
3 |
51 |
Apparatus for Treating Sheet Glass |
3 |
52 |
Batch Feeding Mechanism |
3 |
53 |
Coating Roll and Process of Producing the Same |
3 |
54 |
Continuous Glass Drawing Apparatus |
3 |
55 |
Continuous Tank Furnace |
3 |
56 |
Conveyor Roll |
3 |
57 |
Cooler |
3 |
58 |
Dam Cooler |
3 |
59 |
Device for Maintaining the Width of Sheets of Glass Being Drawn |
3 |
60 |
Design for a Glass Display Table or Similar Article |
3 |
61 |
Drawing and Flattening Continuous Sheet Glass |
3 |
62 |
Drawing and Flattening Sheet Glass |
3 |
63 |
Drawing Continuous Sheet Glass |
3 |
64 |
Draw Flat Sheet Glass |
3 |
65 |
Draw Pot |
3 |
66 |
Drawing Sheet Glass |
3 |
67 |
Edging Machine |
3 |
68 |
Floater |
3 |
69 |
Floater for Glass Furnaces |
3 |
70 |
Flurality-Sheet-Drawing Apparatus |
3 |
71 |
Glass Apparatus and Lip Tile Therefor |
3 |
72 |
Glass Cutter |
3 |
73 |
Glass Cutting Apparatus |
3 |
74 |
Glass Cutting Mechanism |
3 |
75 |
Glass Cutter’s Table |
3 |
76 |
Glass Drawing and Cutting Mechanism |
3 |
77 |
Glass Drawing Apparatus and Process |
3 |
78 |
Glass Furnace |
3 |
79 |
Glass Melting Furnace |
3 |
80 |
Glass Working Apparatus |
3 |
81 |
Glass Working Machine Folder 1 |
3 |
82 |
Glass Working Machine Folder 2 |
3 |
83 |
Laminated Safety Glass |
3 |
84 |
Laminated Safety Glass and Process of Producing it |
3 |
85 |
Lehr for Continuous Sheet Glass |
3 |
86 |
Making Sheet Glass |
3 |
87 |
Means for Drawing Sheet-Glass |
3 |
88 |
Means for Filing Glass-Melting Tanks |
3 |
89 |
Means for Heating an Annealing Lehr and Process of Annealing |
3 |
90 |
Means for Introducing Batch Ingredients into Glass Melting Furnace |
3 |
91 |
Means for Treating Glass |
3 |
92 |
Method and Apparatus for Drawing Sheet Glass |
3 |
93 |
Method and Apparatus for Drawing Wire-Glass |
3 |
94 |
Method and Apparatus for Flattening Sheet Glass |
3 |
95 |
Method and Apparatus for Handling and Emptying Glass Melting Pots |
3 |
96 |
Method and Apparatus for Heating Molten Glass |
3 |
97 |
Method and Apparatus for Making Sheet-Glass |
3 |
98 |
Method and Means for Skimming Glass |
3 |
99 |
Method and Apparatus for Tempering the Sheet Source in Sheet-Glass Drawing Machines |
3 |
100 |
Method and Apparatus for Tempering the Sheet Source in Sheet Glass Drawing Picture |
3 |
101 |
Method for Cutting Glass |
3 |
102 |
Multiple Glazing Unit |
3 |
103 |
Plastic for Laminated Safety Glass |
3 |
104 |
Process and Apparatus for Drawing Glass |
3 |
105 |
Process and Apparatus for Drawing Sheet Glass |
3 |
106 |
Process and Apparatus for the Continuous Production of Sheet-Glass |
3 |
107 |
Process for Undercutting Laminated Safety Glass |
3 |
108 |
Regenerator |
3 |
109 |
Sheet Glass Apparatus |
3 |
110 |
Sheet Glass Apparatus |
3 |
111 |
Sheet Glass Drawing Apparatus |
3 |
112 |
Sheet-Glass Drawing Machine |
3 |
113 |
Sheet-Glass Drawing Mechanism |
3 |
114 |
Sheet-Glass Forming Apparatus |
3 |
115 |
Sheet Glass Handling Apparatus |
3 |
116 |
Tank-Furnace-Heating Means |
3 |
117 |
Template |
3 |
118 |
Trademarks |
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S6: Subject Files(NOTE: * denotes box is located on Range 65) |
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3 |
119 |
Charleston Plant |
3 |
120 |
Furnace History |
3 |
121 |
Flat Glass History |
3 |
122 |
Fuel Utilization in Glass History |
4* |
1 |
History Of Glass |
4* |
2 |
Laurinburg Furnace Lighting/Open House |
4* |
3 |
Laurinburg North Carolina Plant |
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LOF Building |
4* |
4 |
Ottawa Illinois Plant |
4* |
5 |
Reddick, William |
4* |
6 |
Shreveport Plant |
4* |
7 |
Shreveport Plant description |
4* |
8 |
Shreveport Plant Closing |
4* |
9 |
Shreveport Plant Wind Damage Report |
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S7: Artifacts and Personal Items(NOTE: ^ denotes box is located on oversize shelf) |
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6^ |
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Blue Plated Textured Glass |
4* |
10 |
Color Sample, Medium Blue |
4* |
11 |
Color Sample, Standard Green |
4* |
12 |
Congratulatory Letter |
5* |
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Contractor’s Badge |
4* |
13 |
Decimal Plate and Sheet Glass Calculator |
5* |
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Employee Badge |
4* |
14 |
Glass from Charleston, WV. Plant August 1979 |
7^ |
1 |
Identification Labels |
5* |
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LOF Glass Co. matchbook |
7^ |
1 |
Meet Some Friends of Yours and Ours Too Employees of East Toledo and Rossford Plants |
5* |
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One year Service Pin |
5* |
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Service Pin |
7^ |
1 |
Shipping Calculator Chart |
4* |
15 |
Some of the last glass produced in the Charleston Plant |
5* |
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Thickness Gauge |