American Glass Review

American Glass Review PDF Author:
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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American Glass Review

American Glass Review PDF Author:
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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National Glass Budget

National Glass Budget PDF Author:
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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American Glass

American Glass PDF Author: George Skinner McKearin
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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American Glass Review

American Glass Review PDF Author:
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Category : Glassworkers
Languages : en
Pages : 1554

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American Glass

American Glass PDF Author: John Stuart Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226691
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.

Masterpieces of American Glass

Masterpieces of American Glass PDF Author: Jane Shadel Spillman
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780517573242
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Spectacular full-color photographs and a fascinating text trace the history of glassmaking in America, from the functional bottles, bowls, flasks, goblets, and oil lamps of colonial times to stunning pieces of contemporary glass art. 140 full-color photographs.

Collectors' Guide to Antique American Glass

Collectors' Guide to Antique American Glass PDF Author: Marvin D. Schwartz
Publisher: Doubleday Books
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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If you are curious about the fuss some people make about American glass, if you are a collector who has concentrated on a single phase of your hobby, or if you are a student of Americana who would like to see how glass relates to the rest of the decorative arts, this book was written for you.

American Glass Review

American Glass Review PDF Author:
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Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The Development of the American Glass Industry

The Development of the American Glass Industry PDF Author: Pearce Davis
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Glass House

Glass House PDF Author: Brian Alexander
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250085810
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.