Records, 1851-1989.

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Records, 1851-1989.

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Administrative Records include: corporate record books from Edward Ford Plate Glass Company (1899-1930), Toledo Glass Company (1895-1931), Libbey-Owens Glass Company (1916-1933), also annual reports from Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company (1930-1982), and the Pilkington Group (1988- ). Corporate File Records deal primarily with contracts and subsidiaries. Publications series includes speeches, papers, and research materials created by employees of Libbey-Owens-Ford. 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). Also includes bibliographies and other publications on glass manufacturing, advertising, and history. Largest series consists of materials on sales and promotion at Libbey-Owens-Ford. Includes subject files, files on distributors and dealers of Libbey- Owens-Ford products, press releases issued by the company, and advertising scrapbooks. Bulk of series consists of "Glass at Work" files on actual applications of Libbey-Owens-Ford products. Divisions and Products series consists of files with documents and photographs. Plants series documents Libbey-Owens-Ford factories in United States and internationally. Final series includes glass plate negatives, photographs, and scrapbooks on Irving Wightman Colburn's experiments with the mechanization of flat glass manufacture (ca. 1900-1920).

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University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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Ford, J. B. (John Baptiste), 1811-1903

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Ford (Pittsburgh, Penn. : Toledo, Ohio : 1811-1967)

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The Ford family was an important force in the American manufacture of plate glass. In 1869, John B. Ford opened the family's first glass factory in New Albany, Indiana. A second factory in Creighton, Pennsylvania grew to become the Pittsburgh Plate Glass. John B. Ford's son, Edward Ford, founded the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in Rossford, Ohio. After Edward Ford's death in 1920, George Ross Ford, Sr. took over leadership of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Compan. That company merged with the Li...

Ford, George Ross, Sr., 1882-1938

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George Ross Ford, Sr. was the son of Edward Ford, founder of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company. He assumed the presidency of the company in 1920, when his father died, and served in this role until its merger with the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company in 1930. After the merger, he served as a vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford Company....

Edward Ford Plate Glass Company

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During the 1860s entrepreneur John B. Ford developed interest in an area of glass manufacturing where no American glass company had gone before: plate glass. In the United States at the time of the 1860s all polished plate glass was being imported from Europe. There was neither equipment nor skilled technicians in the U.S. to produce plate glass. Captain Ford, aware of the competition in glass bottle and window production, made the move to import plate glass making equipment and technicians fro...

Pilkington Group.

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Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company

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Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company

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The Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio, was formed in 1930 by the merger of several older glassmaking firms. The company produced window glass, plate glass, and automobile safety glass at plants in Ohio and West Virginia. From the description of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company Photograph album, ca. 1939. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52625018 Manufacturer of glass products based in Toledo Ohio since 1888. Incorporated and changed name to Toledo ...

Libbey, Edward Drummond, 1854-1925

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Owens, Michael Joseph, 1859-1923

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Ford, Edward, 1843-1920

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In 1869, the first American plate glass factory was formed by John B. Ford in New Albany, Indiana, with help from his sons Emory and Edward. In 1880, Edward and Emory built a plate glass factory in Creighton, Pennsylvania. This plate glass factory would be reorganized and renamed as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Factory. After Captain Ford sold the family business in 1897, son Edward continued to pursue his passion for glassmaking and built the Ford Plate Glass Company in Rossford, Ohio. The Edward...

Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. Advertising Dept.

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Toledo Glass Company

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Colburn, Irving Wightman, 1861-1917

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