Collection includes outgoing correspondence (1 letter book, 1884-85) and incoming correspondence (1886-90), in part between the company president, Charles F. Blood, and O.E. Frazer, secretary of the New York State Window Glass Manufacturers Mutual Benefit Association, an organization created to meet western competition, concerning efforts to fix local prices and settle discounts and freight deductions; also, correspondence with customers, suppliers, and other glass manufacturers; a committee report (March 1886) recommending that area glass works organize a corporation to be known as the United Glass Company, with offices in Syracuse, to which members would sell their entire season's production of window glass, and the certificate of incorporation and bylaws (1889) of this company, of which Frazer became president; articles of agreement (July 1888) between the New York State Window Glass Manufacturers Mutual Benefit Association and the Window Glass Workers Wage Committee of the Northern District for the blast of 1888-89, concerning wages and other terms of work; operating and shipping records, timebooks, and accounts (29 vols., 1878-89); bills, receipts, inventories of raw materials and equipment, sales records, price lists, fire insurance policies, and printed circulars pertaining to the industry; and one photograph, apparently of the Ithaca plant.
