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Title	United States Glass Company Employee Statistics Report
Subject	Business and Labor Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Glass industry Laborers United States Glass Company
Place	Tiffin (Ohio) Seneca County (Ohio)
Description	This 1927 list of skilled and unskilled laborers of the Tiffin factory of the United States Glass Company includes each employee's name, month and year of birth, age, salary, gender, race, marital status, nationality, number of years employed by company, and occupation. It is 20 pages in length and measures 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm). The United States Glass Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, confronted at the turn of the century by labor unrest, foreign competition, and increasing dependency upon gas rather than coal for manufacturing purposes, began a major reorganization. On July 1, 1891, the company merged more than a dozen companies located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, including the former Beatty Glass Company of Tiffin, the world's largest manufacturer of pressed glassware. In 1938, in a consolidation move, U. S. Glass moved its general offices from Pittsburgh to Tiffin, Ohio. Tiffin's colored glass, satin glass and banana clear glass were among its most notable products in the 1920s. In 1937, the production of cheaper glassware lines was discontinued and efforts were directed toward the manufacturing of high quality stemware and such heavy design pieces as cornucopias, vases, and bowls, which were sold to major department stores. The Tiffin glassworks was noted for its complete lines of lead blown glassware, stemware, tumblers, and tableware. In 1959 business began to diminish and by 1963 the company went bankrupt. A year later, Tiffin Art Glass was born, reviving the company's tradition of quality stemware. Two years later, in June 1966, the glassworks became the property of the Continental Can Company and was officially named the Tiffin Glass Company. In 1979 Leonard Silver Manufacturing Company, a Boston giftware enterprise and division of Towle Silver, purchased the glassworks, remaining in that company's hands until the Tiffin Glass Company closed its doors in 1983.
Creator	United States Glass Company
Date of Original	1927
Collection	Tiffin Glass Company Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) MS-401
Submitting Institution	Center for Archival Collections--Bowling Green State University
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om1867_1965991_001
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