West Virginia and Regional History Center
Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Glass Industry Towns in West Virginia
A&M 5170
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2.9 Linear Feet
Summary: 2 ft. 11 in. (2 record cartons, 15 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in.)
1874-2005
Research papers compiled by history professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf for his book "Glass Towns", a work that focuses on the West Virginia towns of Moundsville, Clarksburg, and Fairmont as case studies to illuminate the history of the glass industry in a local as well as transnational context. The collection includes typescript and manuscript research notes, articles and research papers, union newsletters, newspaper clippings, hearing transcripts, photographs, and other material. Most of the collection consists of photocopies. There are folders containing research regarding census statistics, the content of the industry newsletter "National Glass Budget", and the 1936-1937 strike. Printed material includes proceedings of the first convention of the Window Glass Cutters League of America (1923), and of a joint conference between three glass cutter unions (1926); as well as pamphlets entitled "The Socialist Victory in Adamston, West Virginia" and "Marion County Centennial Yearbook, 1863-1963". There are also copies of nine reels of microfilm from the Ohio Historical Society of the papers of Joseph Slight (1874-1957) regarding the Knights of Labor and the National Window Glass Workers Union. For additional research materials used for the book, regarding American Flint Glass Workers' Union, Local 10, and the Fostoria Glass Company, please see A&M 2642 addendum 2013/02/25.
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English
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Historian, Research Papers Regarding Glass Industry Towns in West Virginia, A&M 5170, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Related A&M Collections
5170, 5179
Separated Materials
Separated to the book collection:
Minton, Lee W. Flame and Heart, A History of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada. Merkle Press, 1961.
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Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
Glass - West Virginia - Clarksburg.
Glass - West Virginia - Fairmont.
Glass - West Virginia - Moundsville.
Glass industry - labor relations.
Strikes and lockouts
Fones-Wolf, Ken
Slight, Joseph.