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.
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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 the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. (WVMAG)
The West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd.
is a non-profit museum with a mission to share the diverse and rich
heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well as telling
of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and of
the tools and machines they used in glass houses.
WVMAG, Ltd. is
located in Weston, West Virginia. The Museum includes representative
samples of all glass products...from bottles to lightening rod balls,
from telegraph insulators to glass used in automobiles, from pressed to
blown tableware. We preserve the history of the places and people who
made these products.
Our Museum examines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories, while at the same time carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller and often time forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry.
The WVMAG displays many of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during the past century. The museum attempts to compare and contrast similar pieces produced by once competing companies. No other public collection offers such contrasts on a large scale.