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Glass museums, USA

2008-04-02T20:39:21Z

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Arkansas

Jonesboro
Arkansas State University Museum
Continuing Ed. Bldg.
P. O. Box 60, State University
Little Rock
Museum of Science & History
McArthur Park

Arizona

Glendale
The Bead Museum

California

Los Angeles
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
National City
Museum of American Treasures
1315 E. 34th St.
Redlands
Historical Glass Museum
1157 Orange Street
Santa Ana
Bowers Museum
2002 N. Main St.
San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
San Francisco
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Golden Gate Park

Conneticut

Hartford
Wadsworth Museum
600 Main St.
New Haven
Yale Universtiy Art Museum
1111 Chapel St.
Delaware

Wilmington
Rockwood Museum
610 Shipley Rd.
Winterthur
Winterhur Museum
Route 52

District of Columbia

Washington
Daughter of the American Revolution Museum
1776 D Street N.W.
Hillwood Museum
4155 Linnean Ave.
The Smithsonian Institution

Florida

St. Augustine
Lightner Museum
PO Box 334
Winter Park
Morse Gallery of Art
445 Park Ave.

Georgia

Atlanta
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St. NE

Illinois

Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Museum
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Michigan Ave. at Adams
Springfield
Illinois State Museum
Spring & Edwards Streets
Wheaton
DuPage County Historical Museum
102 E. Wesley St.

Indiana

Dunkirk
Glass Museum
309 S. Franklin
Greentown
Greentown Glass Museum
112 N. Meridian
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Museum of Art
1200 W. 38th St.
Kokomo
Howard County Historical Museum
1200 W. Sycamore
Richmond
Wayne County Historical Museum
1150 North A. St.

Iowa

Ames
Brunnier Gallery
290 Scheman Blvd.

Kansas

Independence
Independence Museum
123 N. 8th St.
Lawrence
The University of Kansas Museum of Art

Lousiana

New Orleans
The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art
Shreveport
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
4747 Creswell Ave.

Maine

Douglas Hill
Jones Gallery of Glass & Ceramics
Rt. 107
Sebago
The Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics
Phillips
Phillips Historical Society
Pleasant St.
Portland
Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square
Maine Historical Society
485 Congress St.
Searsport
Penobscot
Church St.

Maryland

Baltimore
Baltimore Museum of Art
Maryland Historical Society
Walters Gallery
Massachusetts

Boston
Fine Arts Museum
465 Huntington Ave.
Brockton
Fuller Museum of Art
455 Oak St.
Cambridge
Botanical Museum
Harvard University
Fall River
Fall River Historical Society
451 Rock St.
Lincoln
DeCordova Museum
Sandy Pond Rd.
New Bedford
New Bedford Glass Museum
Salem
Essex Institute
132 Exxex St.
Sandwich
Sandwich Glass Museum
PO Box 103
129 Main St.
Sturbridge
Old Sturbridge Village and Museum
Worcester
Worcester Historical Museum
30 Elm St.

Michigan

Dearborn
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Deerfield
Historic Deerfield Village and Museum
Grand Rapids
Public Museum of Grand Rapids
54 Jefferson S.E.

Missouri

St Louis
City Art Museum
St. Paul
Minnesota Historical Society
690 Cedar St.

Nebraska

Minden
Harold Warp Pioneer Village

New Hampshire

Manchester
The Currier Gallery of Art
192 Orange St.

New Jersey

Egg Harbor City
Renault Glass Museum
72 North Bremen Avenue
Glassboro
Heritage Glass Museum
High and Center Sts.
Trenton
New Jersey State Museum
205 West State St.
Millville
Wheaton Historical Association and Village
1501 Glasstown Rd.
Woodbury
Glouster County Historical Society
PO Box 409

New Mexico

Los Alamos
Bradbury Science Museum
Mail Stop C330

New York

Alfred
New York State College of Ceramics
Corning
The Corning Museum of Glass
Corning Glass Center
The Rockwell Museum
New York
The Brooklyn Museum
188 Eastern Parkway
The Hispanic Society of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth at 82nd St.
New York Historical Society Museum
170 Central Park West
Rochester
Rochester Museum & Science Center
657 East Ave
Strong Museum
One Manhattan Square

North Caroline

Greensboro
Greensboro Historical Museum
130 Summit Ave.

Ohio

Bedford
Bedford Historical Society
Box 46282
30 S. Park St.
Cambridge
Cambridge Glass Musuem
812 Jefferson
Degenhart Paperweight & Glass Museum
I 77 & Rt 22
The National Cambridge Collectors Musuem
Centerville
Walton House Museum
89 West Franklin Street
Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Museum of Art
Eden Park
Cleveland
Cleveland Museum of Art
Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections
Western Reserve Historial Society Museum
10825 East Blvd.
Fostoria
Fostoria Glass Heritage Gallery
109 N. Main St.
Findlay
Hancock County Historical Museum
422 Sandusky St.
Massillon
Massillon Museum
212 Lincoln Way
Mentor
Lake County Historical Society
8610 King Mem. Rd.
Milan
Milan Historical Museum
Box 308
10 Edison Dr.
Newark
National Heisey Glass Museum
Oberlin
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Toledo
Antique and Historic Glass Foundation
The Toledo Museum of Art
Tiffin
Seneca County Museum
28 Clay St.
Zanesville
Zanesville Art Center
620 Military Rd.

Pennsylvania

Hershey
Hershey Museum of American Life
170 W. Hershey Park
Lewisburg
Packwod House and Museum
Philadelphia
Burholme Park Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
PO Box 7646 W. Hershey Park
Pittsburg
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave.
The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
4338 Bigelow Blvd.
Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center
Pocono
Dorflinger Glass Museum
Scranton
The Everhart Museum
1901 Mulberry St.
Shippensburg
Shippensburg Historical Society
Washington
Duncan and Miller Glass Museum
West Chester
Chester County Historical Society
225 N. Hight St.

Rhode Island

Providene
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
2 College St.

South Caroline

Charleston
Charleston Museum
360 Meeting St.

Tennessee

Chattanooga
Houston Antique Museum
201 High St.
Memphis
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
Overton Park

Vermont

Bennington
The Bennington Museum
West Main Street
West Addison
John Strong Mansion
Shelburne
Shelburne Museum
P.O. Box 10
Route 7

Virginia

Norfold
Chrysler Museum Institute of Glass
Onley Rd & Mowbray Arch

Washington

Seattle
Museum of History & Industry
2700 24th Ave.
Tacoma
International Glass Museum

West Virginia

Fenton
Fenton Glass Musuem
Huntington
Huntington Museum of Art
2033 McCoy Rd.
Moundsville
Fostoria Glass Museum ction at the Huntington Museum of Art
Oglebay Park
Oglebay Institute Glass Museum iage House Glass Museum
Weston
West Virginia Museum of American Glass
Wheeling
Oglebay Institute Glass Museum

Wisconsin

Madison
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
30 N. Carroll St.
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W. Wells St.
Neenah
Berstrom-Mahler Museum
165 North Park Ave.
Oshkosk
Paine Art Center & Arboretum
1410 Algoma Blvd.

REGULATOR SAFETY

2008-04-02T20:32:31Z

Mermonkey:

OXYGEN -- Be aware that many petroleum products can spontaneously combust when they come in contact with pure oxygen. Never use oil or oil base products on your regulators or equipment.
PROPANE -- Never operate your regulator above bare metric pressur or the red line. This will cause liquid propane in your lines which will consequently come out your torch with a huge uncontrollable flame
Flashback Arrestors or Check Valves are advised with the use of all regulators.SAFETY TIPS
Be prepared for your project. Have your work site and tools set up prior to turning on the flame.
Know your equipment and surrounding.
Make sure ventilation is on.
Be considerate of your neighbor workers. Do Not make sudden moves or distract others at the flame.
Always ask before borrow another person's equipment.
We also recommend getting sylvanite (burn ointment), from your local pharmacist.
Avoid creating hazardous waste, i.e. stringers and bubble trash.
Do not force the glass, get it hotter.
Do not burn the glass (looks white-bubbly), move faster.

Shop safety

2008-04-02T20:31:47Z

Mermonkey:

SAFETY
Safety glass are to be worn at all time while working in the glass shop.
Working at the point of the torch produces radiation that is bad for your eyes as well as your skin. Gook posture and optimum distance from the flame will reduce these hazards.
The most common injuries that occur in the glass shop are minor burns and cuts.
Cuts can be the most serous of the injuries, causing possible tendon and nerve damage. Always be careful when moving around glass. Never push or force glass, and when working with molten glass always stop moving before the glass.
Minor burns are the most common of injuries. Many of these injuries can be avoided by working only one end of your rod in the flame. Also. by placing the hottest end of the rod or tubing away from you when setting them down on the workbench.
More serious burns caused by the flame require immediate attention. Place the burn under cold water, keeping it submerged for approximately 20 minutes. This procedure is necessary, because of the exotic mix of gases and carbon. This mixture formed on the skin can microscopically spontaneously combust casing further damage to your skin. The water will neutralize the mixture of gasses and carbons.
REGULATOR SAFETY
OXYGEN -- Be aware that many petroleum products can spontaneously combust when they come in contact with pure oxygen. Never use oil or oil base products on your regulators or equipment.
PROPANE -- Never operate your regulator above bare metric pressur or the red line. This will cause liquid propane in your lines which will consequently come out your torch with a huge uncontrollable flame
Flashback Arrestors or Check Valves are advised with the use of all regulators.SAFETY TIPS
Be prepared for your project. Have your work site and tools set up prior to turning on the flame.
Know your equipment and surrounding.
Make sure ventilation is on.
Be considerate of your neighbor workers. Do Not make sudden moves or distract others at the flame.
Always ask before borrow another person's equipment.
We also recommend getting sylvanite (burn ointment), from your local pharmacist.
Avoid creating hazardous waste, i.e. stringers and bubble trash.
Do not force the glass, get it hotter.
Do not burn the glass (looks white-bubbly), move faster.
REMEMBER
FIRE BURNS AND GLASS CUTS!!!

Zanesville Glass

2008-04-02T20:28:41Z

Mermonkey:

The White Glass Works (1815), later known as Shepard & Co., (1822) made this notable glass. Its bottles and vials were often mis-identified as 18th century glass, and is known for its hollow ware. Some historical flasks are marked "Zanesville, Ohio, Shepard & Co."
New Granite Glass Works (1816) was known for bottles and flasks.
Kearn established a plant (1840), assimilated others, making a diversity of glass.

Yoke

2008-04-02T20:28:12Z

Mermonkey:

Supports for blowpipes that are Y-shaped, often with ball bearing roller.
Yokes give support at the glory hole while rotating the pipe.

Xanthine Glass

2008-04-02T20:27:41Z

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See silver in glass.
Yellow glass, sometimes made by adding silver to glass.

Wormser & Company

2008-04-02T20:27:04Z

Mermonkey:

Pittsburgh
The company was started in the 1850s and production continued to the late 1880s or early 1890s.
Production included bottles and flasks.

Witch Ball

2008-04-02T20:26:12Z

Mermonkey:

True witch balls were a hollow ball of swirled parti-colored glass, two to seven inches (or more) in diameter.
Originated in England and was used by superstitious glassmakers to ward off the evil eye, by hanging in a cottages window.
The eighteenth century tradition developed into one of hanging many on a tree or candletrows at Christmas or Twelfth night.

Wistar Glass

2008-04-02T20:25:47Z

Mermonkey:

Wistar glass is considered by some as America's earliest collectable glass.
Caspar Wistar is thought to have been born in the Netherlands in 1696 and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717, becoming a Quaker. He married Catherine Jensen in 1726, she was from a old and noted Dutch family.
A button maker, he brought four glass blowers from the Netherlands in 1739. Indentured men, part of the agreement was that they teach Wistar, and son Richard (and no others), the art of glassmaking.
The glass factory was started in 1740 on Alloway Creek, Salem County, N.J. and operated to 1780. It produced glass in the Dutch tradition such as bicolor swirls, lily pad decoration and pearl drawing..
Production included:
bottles
chemical glass ware
electric globes
tubes
mustard jars
window glass

Willington Glass

2008-04-02T20:25:05Z

Mermonkey:

Willington Glass:

Connecticut
The Willington Glass Company was started in about 1815 through to the 1870s.
Production included:
amber and green glass
bottles
carboys
flasks
hollow wares
vials

Williamsburg Glass

2008-04-02T20:24:39Z

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Brooklyn glass
Glass produced at the Willamsburg Glass Works, Long Island, from the 1840s to the 1890s.
Production included:
cut glass
fine clear glass
fine colored glass
plain glass

Whitall - Tatum

2008-04-02T20:24:13Z

Mermonkey:

Glass factory started at Millville, N.J. in about 1806, by James Lee.
The Whitall brothers obtained management of the plant in the 1840s.
In the 1860s the plant became known as the Whitall-Tatum concern.
A catalogue list almost 1000 production items.

Whitefriars Glass

2008-04-02T20:23:52Z

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ks who lived at the factory site. In 1834, James Powell ( 1774 to 1840) bought and renamed it James Powell and Sons, untill 1962 when it again was named the Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
Production included:
clear glass decanter
drinking glasses
paperweights.
tableware

Whimsies

2008-04-02T20:23:18Z

Mermonkey:

Usually after hours production of curiosities, oddities and toys.
Also products of itinerant glass workers who worked glass with Bunsen burners.
Production of diverse pieces mainly date from the 1880s and 1890s.

Wheat, Price

2008-04-02T20:22:27Z

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Wheeling, VA., glassmakers of the 1830s.
Production included:
blown glass
blown mold flask
cut glass
cut glass lamps
flint ware
pressed glass
pressed glass knobs
tablewares
vials

Wheat, Price & Company

2008-04-02T20:21:43Z

Mermonkey:

Wheeling, VA., glassmakers of the 1830s.
Production included:
blown glass
blown mold flask
cut glass
cut glass lamps
flint ware
pressed glass
pressed glass knobs
tablewares
vials

Wellsburg Glass

2008-04-02T20:20:57Z

Mermonkey:

Wellsburg glass was made at Charleston VA, and then at Wellsburg, from 1813 through to the 1840s. It is Virginia glass as West Virginia did not become a state until 1861, or admitted to the union until 1863.
Production included:
flasks
flint glass bottles
tablewares

Waterford

2008-04-02T20:20:17Z

Mermonkey:

Made in Waterford, Ireland, from 1729 to 1851 and from 1951 to the present, it is characterized by thick walls, deep geometric cutting, and bright polish. Early Waterford glass had a smoky, bluish gray color, considered a drawback (now a collectors item), so clear crystal was produced after 1830. Chandeliers with diamond-cut or scalloped branches, wall lamps, sconces, bowls, and vases were characteristic. Most of the glass prior to 1783 was blown glass, cutting was adopted in that year.

Washington Glass Works

2008-04-02T20:19:23Z

Mermonkey:

Started at Williamstown, N.J., in 1839.
Production included:
bottles
druggists' wares
flasks
vials

Warwick Glass

2008-04-02T17:39:31Z

Mermonkey:

Glass made at the Warwick, Maine plant which was started as Franklin Glass Company in about 1812 or 1813 and operated to about 1820.
Production included:
bottles
decanters
jars
plates
pitchers
off hand work

Wardian Case

2008-04-02T17:13:12Z

Mermonkey:

Originally a flowers box with a glass bell cover.
Later named Vivarium.
Method of bringing plants back from distant lands, the glass bells created condensation that watered the plants contained within.

Vitro Di Trina

2008-04-01T00:34:53Z

Mermonkey:

A Venetian glass having lacy threads of opaque white in transparent colored body. As a "modern" glass it may date from c. 1450.
The style was produced in Roman glass factories.

Viscosity Gradient

2008-04-01T00:33:48Z

Mermonkey:

The gradation of the fluidity of glass.
To exemplify the gradiant, a piece of hot glass on a rod is easiet to control when the glass is hottest and softest at the end away from the rod ; cooler and stiffer nearby the rod, the viscosity graduates.
Cold or hot spot on a piece of glass destroys the gradient.

Viscosity

2008-04-01T00:33:23Z

Mermonkey:

Stiffness.
The amount of resistance to flow of a liquid, measured in centriposes, high viscosity liquids are stiff. Viscosity of glass increases with decreasing temperature, stiffening glass until below the strain point when glass acts as a solid.

Verre Eglomise

2008-04-01T00:32:22Z

Mermonkey:

French
The mirror and picture framer, Glomy (d. 1786)
A technique of applying silver or gold foil on the reversed, cut or engraved pattern, and backing the work with a red, blue, or black ground.
It is also a term for a form of Zwischengold decorations for jewelry and medallions.

Verre de Nevers

2008-04-01T00:31:52Z

Mermonkey:

Term for small lampwork figures of opaque colors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from Nevers and other places.

Vermiculite

2008-04-01T00:30:59Z

Mermonkey:

Expanded mica.
A light weight, insulating material, used to allow hot glass to cool slowly.

Vermicular Collar

2008-04-01T00:30:35Z

Mermonkey:

The thin wavy like ring around a stem, glass, or bowl's bottom, or bottle neck. Sometimes they are used for a tall stem, providing a finger lip for grasping.

Vent

2008-04-01T00:30:05Z

Mermonkey:

An outlet for air, smoke, and fumes not be confused with peep holes. Kiln vents allow organic fumes, from initial heating, and excess heat to escape.

Venetian Glass

2008-04-01T00:29:35Z

Mermonkey:

Reference to glass work and sytles done in the Venetian manner that originated in Murano, Italy.
Venetian glass is masterfullly crafted or thinly blown.

Vauxhall Glass

2008-04-01T00:29:15Z

Mermonkey:

Plate glass with beveled edges made at Vauxhall Works, started by the Duke of Buckingham, England, c. 1660. Thee are stories that fine crystal vases and bottles were made at the works.

Vaupel, Louis

2008-04-01T00:28:55Z

Mermonkey:

A glass cutter of the New England Glass Company, Cambridge, from 1856 to the 1870s.

Vasa Murrhina

2008-04-01T00:28:28Z

Mermonkey:

The name of a varicolored glass made by dusting a father or parison of glass with metals and metal oxides, then fusing it and finally coating it with another coat of glass.

Val Saint Lambert Glass

2008-04-01T00:27:48Z

Mermonkey:

Production of the factory started in 1825 at Val Saint Lambert, Belgium. It was noted for its beautiful crystal wares and press glass that have a dotted and lacy background, a great deal of it marked "Val St. Lambert, Belgique."

United States Glass Company

2008-03-28T18:51:57Z

Mermonkey:

The plant was started at Falmouth, Mass and produced pressed glass.
The plant was later known as Falmouth Glass Works.

Union Glass

2008-03-28T18:51:33Z

Mermonkey:

Production of the Union Flint Glass Works at Pittsburgh, Pa., started in 1830 and operated by Hay & Campbell from 1831 to the 1850s.
Production included:
cut glass
blown flint ware
decanters
lamps
plain tablewares
pressed flint ware

Two glass works at Wheeling, Va., used the name Union.
Production included:
bitters bottles
green glass
perfumers' wares
vials.
Union Glass Company at Somerville, Mass., made pressed glass and blanks for cutting.

Union Flint Glass Company

2008-03-28T18:51:02Z

Mermonkey:

Also known as: Kensington, Pa., Works.
Started in the 1820s by men from the New England Glass company and operated untill the 1870s.
Production included:
colored glass
cut glass
fine clear glass
plain glass
specialties

Twistie; twisty

2008-03-28T18:50:20Z

Mermonkey:

The decoration of glass cane by twisting two or more colored pieces together

Tungsten carbide

2008-03-28T18:49:39Z

Mermonkey:

WC
It appears a fine gray powder used for rough grinding and as an abrasive in tool and dies, and wear resistant tool and machine parts.

Translucent

2008-03-28T18:48:20Z

Mermonkey:

The property of transmission of light that diffuses it

Trail, Trailing

2008-03-28T18:47:48Z

Mermonkey:

The pulling of a strand of glass onto the surface of a glass object, to produce spirals, or other patterns. The trailed glass can be later shaped with tools.

Torsade

2008-03-28T18:47:00Z

Mermonkey:

A filigree ring of white with or with out colored thread, usually with complicated patterns and form low border to mushrooms or upright bouquets.
With reference to paperweights, it is opaque glass thread wound loosely around the filigree core often found at the bse of a mushroom weight.

Tin oxide

2008-03-28T18:46:04Z

Mermonkey:

SnO
A polishing compound for glass that appears as a white powder.

Tiffany favrile

2008-03-28T18:45:39Z

Mermonkey:

Favrile, Latin for "craftsman"
This "Art Nouveau" glass was made by Louis Comfort Tiffany from 1893 to 1933 on Long Island, N.Y. It is an iridescent and unconfined shaped glass, often with silky looking surfaces. Frequently it combined bronze like alloys and other metals to make a range of colors from deep blue to purple, and yellow-gold to green. The glass was very popular in the United States and Europe from 1890 to 1915, and revived in the 1960s.

Three Mold Pressed Glass

2008-03-28T18:44:59Z

Mermonkey:

A term for blown three molded glass. The molds were made of three of more hinged pieces which required an assistant to open and close the molds. Such glass usually show lines were the molds joined.

Thermocouple

2008-03-28T18:44:08Z

Mermonkey:

A thermoelectric device of two dissimilar metals that form a electrical potential difference at their junction. The potential changes with temperature and is measurable.

Thermal Shock

2008-03-28T18:43:41Z

Mermonkey:

A reference to materials shock from heat. Too rapid of heating or cooling past the strain point temperature of glass causes thermal strains and cracking.

Thermal Endurance

2008-03-28T18:43:18Z

Mermonkey:

The capacity of glass to undergo thermal shock.

Thermal Coeeficient of Expansion (a alpha)

2008-03-28T18:42:49Z

Mermonkey:

The amount a material will expand (per degree) when heated, expressed exponentially. The smaller a is the more resistant a glass is to thermal shock.
PyrexTM 7740, a = 32.5 X 10-Z.
The closer the a of two glasses are the more compatible they are.

Tessera

2008-03-28T18:42:02Z

Mermonkey:

Reference to squares or individual pieces of a mosaic. Also a reference to pieces of glass or other substances.

Tempering Glass

2008-03-28T18:41:26Z

Mermonkey:

glass treatment that produces internal stress by rapid cooling from a low red heat with a blast of air that hardens the surface first that compresses as the inner glass continues to shrink. This is a very durable glass, however it does not cut, as it will break into small pieces.