by Jeffrey Robert Thompson
This is the history of over two dozen practical glass men, exploring the lives of those bottle blowers whose specific trade was the blowing of green glass bottles. Before bottle making became a mechanized process, glassblowing was key to supplying containers and other objects to a range of industries. Twenty-eight practitioners of the art came together in 1881 in Woodbury, New Jersey, and founded the Woodbury Glass Works.Many of the glassblowers shared not only a humble calling, but also a commo
ISBN: 9781939216694
392 pages
Published: 2020-11-30