Edward Drummond Libbey, American glassmaker / Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Title: 
Edward Drummond Libbey, American glassmaker / Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Author/Artist: 
Skrabec, Quentin R.
Publisher: 
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
Description: 
vii, 234 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Format of Material: 
Books
Bib ID: 
122626
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Location: 
Secured Stacks
Call Number: 
TP853.O4S62e
Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
TP853.O4S62e
Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Edward Drummond Libbey changed the glass industry with his automatic bottle-making and sheet glass machines. This work examines Libbey's career, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for Toledo Museum of Art's collection"--Provided by publisher.
Corning Glass (p. 13, 44, 77-80, 135-136).
Contents: 
A crisis in Frogtown --
A personal and industrial genealogy --
Edward Drummond Libbey --
Toledo and northwest Ohio of the 1880s --
The Business Men's Association --
Florence Scott --
The turnaround --
The Columbian World Fair --
Industrialist and glass aristocrat --
The Toledo Glass Company --
Signature years --
The glass capitalist --
Europe and expansion --
Grand opening --
The story of flat glass --
Working on a legacy --
The taming of the lion --
Final months --
A model CEO --
An industrial and labor republic --
Industrial designer and marketing genius.
ISBN: 
9780786463350 (softcover : alk. paper)
078646335X (softcover : alk. paper)