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The T. H. Sloan Co., Washington, Pa.
R. H. Dreshman & Sons, Homestead, Pa.
The Carborundum Co., Niagara, N.Y.
Sokol Glass Machinery Inc., Elmira, N.Y.
The Hartford-Empire Corporation, Hartford, Con. |
Universities and Research Institutions visited were :
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Pittsburg University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Mellon Institute, Pittsburg, Pa.
The Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio. |
Museums Having Glass Collections visited were :
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Toledo Museum (Libbey Collection), Toledo, Ohio.
Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
THE AMERICAN DOMESTIC GLASSWARE INDUSTRY
The value of the total output of domestic glassware in the United States in 1939 was about 40 million dollars; the average number employed in the industry during that year was 27,330. No separate figures are available showing the numbers employed in the hand-blown and pressed sections; the factories in these sections are comparatively small, rarely employing more than 750 workers.
The hand-blown and hand-pressed sections of the American industry have, as might be expected, a smaller output in quantity and in value than the automatic machine-made section. The following are the statistics for 1939 and 1945 respectively:
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Kind |
No. of establishments |
Quantity 000s |
Value $ |
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1939 |
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1. Machine-made Tableware |
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|
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Tumblers, goblets and barware |
18 |
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540,513 |
14,108,368 |
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Plates, dishes, cups and saucers |
9 |
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299,640 |
9,563,970 |
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Other tableware |
15 |
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215,114 |
4,693,760 |
2. Hand-pressed Ware |
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|
|
|
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Tumblers, goblets and barware |
14 |
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15,663 |
2,400,011 |
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Plates, dishes, cups and saucers |
8 |
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15,447 |
1,583,646 |
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Other tableware |
12 |
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27,680 |
2,653,287 |
3. Hand-blown Ware |
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|
|
|
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Tumblers, goblets and barware |
20 |
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34,586 |
3,863,000 |
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Other tablewareTO A C |
13 |
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6,309 |
1,155,458 |
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1945 |
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1. Machine-made Tableware |
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|
|
|
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Tumblers, goblets and other stemware |
20 |
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805,572 |
20,011,000 |
2. Hand-pressed Ware |
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Tumblers |
16 |
{ |
4,284 |
498,000 |
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Goblets and other stemware |
{ |
4,044 |
763,000 |
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Plates, cups and saucers |
{ |
3,696 |
1,303,000 |
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Other tableware |
{ |
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2,273,000 |
3. Hand-blown Ware |
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|
|
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Tumblers |
32 |
{ |
15,348 |
2,406,000 |
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Goblets and other stemware |
{ |
38,184 |
7,002,000 |
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Other tableware |
{ |
1,752 |
344,000 |
The data for 1945 are not strictly comparable with that for 1939; the figures for other tableware are not available for machine-made and hand-pressed ware. It is clear that production of machine-made tumblers and of blown tumblers
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