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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], American Flint Glass Workers Union Papers, A&M 2642, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
Minutes, proceedings, circulars, agreements, constitutions, bylaws, correspondence, and reports of the local union which worked in the stemware and punch tumbler department of Fostoria Glass Company.
Addendum of 2013/02/25 includes materials collected by Paul W. Myers (August 28, 1927 - October 21, 2008) a former employee of Fostoria Glass Company and former American Flint Glass Workers Union Union Representative of Local #10. Includes correspondence, business records, photographs, printed material, ephemera, clippings, an artifact, and a cassette tape. Addendum materials pertain to Fostoria Glass Company and American Flint Glass Workers Union, mostly Local Union #10 but also #507, of Moundsville. Series include Company and Union Records, Photographs, Printed Material, Ephemera, Clippings, Artifact, and Cassette Tape. (1878-1986; 1 ft.)
Company and Union Records include correspondence, contracts, recipes, insurance and pension documents, and other material.
Clippings include newspaper clippings pertaining to the sale and closure of Fostoria Glass Company, among other topics.
The artifact is a local #10 ribbon.
The cassette tape contains an oral history interview with Howard Denoon, former Fostoria employee (1977). His interview may be related to the oral history transcripts in A&M 5170.
Some of the material in this addendum was used by Dr. Kenneth Fones-Wolf in researching his book, Glass Towns . For a collection of his research papers, please see A&M 5170.
Related Material
2438, 2642
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- American Flint Glass Workers' Union
- American Flint Glass Workers' Union, Local 10 (Moundsville, West Virginia)
- Fostoria Glass Company
- Glass industry.
- Glass manufacture
- Glassworkers
- Glassworkers -- Labor unions
- Labor unions
- Moundsville (W. Va.)
- Myers, Paul W., 1927-2008.