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Bottle Glass Factories in Tracyville and Hawley, Pennsylvania. This is Monograph No. 157 in the glass study series of the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. Christian Dorflinger, a renowned maker of exquisite cut, engraved and etched flint glass, oddly also spearheaded the founding of two green (aqua) and amber lime glass bottle factories near his White Mills, Pennsylvania business. One glassworks was built to the north in the village of Tracyville while the other was constructed to the southeast in the town of Hawley. For brief periods, production of similar items overlapped at both sites. This monograph will identify the separate firms which oversaw glass production at these sites, determine how long each one conducted business, point out respective operational or manning issues, document glass articles turned out and examine how and where some factory products were marketed. Written by Barry Bernas.
123 pages, illustrated.
This monograph is a part of a much larger project to place glass information not in archival storage boxes but in the hands of students, collectors, and dealers in glass. Only by sharing can we make the necessary leaps in learning, as we all bring some piece of the puzzle. The West Virginia Museum of American Glass (WVMAG), a non-profit organization,is committed to sharing glass information and from that conviction this Monograph Series was born.
The WVMAG catalog reprints and our series of monographs address glass topics that yet lack the wide interest to make publishing a book commercially successful or that we do not yet know enough to commit to the more permanent form of a book. WVMAG\'s photocopied catalogs and monographs are endeavors in seed planting by providing information on topics that may not have been previously readily available that other researchers can draw upon in formulating their own work.
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About theMuseum of American Glass (MAGWV)
MAGWV isa501(c)(3) tax-exempt not-for-profit organization located in Weston,WV. Our mission is to share the diverseand rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well astelling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and ofthe tools and machines they used in glass houses.
The Museumcontains representative samples of glass products as widely varied as pressedand blown tableware, art glass, bottles, marbles, insulators, automotive glass,glass eyeballs, and much more. There is also equipment and tools whichwere used in glassmaking. We preservethe history of the places and people who made these products.
The Museumexamines the rich history of some of America\'s most famous glass factories,while carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller andoftentimes forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry.
MAGWV displaysmany of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during thepastcentury, attempting to compare and contrast similar pieces producedby once competing companies. No other public collection offers suchcontrasts on a large scale.
