Seneca Glass Company

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Papers of Barbara Howe, Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Center, documenting her extensive professional activities within West Virginia University and the WVU community involving history and women's concerns. Also contains addenda of 2012/01, 2013/02, 2014/05/03, and 2014/06/10. These addenda include newsletters, photographs, correspondence, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" for details.

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ALS. Miss Boehler, Powhatan College, Charlestown, WV, March 12, 1911, to her father, Charles Boehler, c/o Seneca Glass Company, Morgantown, WV. 6 p. on 5 leaves.

Scope and Contents Records of Seneca Glass (1891-1983) of Morgantown, West Virginia, and of Houze Glass (ca. 1920-2005) of Pt. Marion, Pennsylvania, collected by Dave Weimer a former employee of both companies. Members of the Weimer family were employed by Seneca Glass. Materials include employee records, pattern records, chemist correspondence, catalogs, and advertising, among other material. This collection is minimally processed.Records date from ca. 1900-1983 for Seneca, and ca....

Overview Catalogs, reports, contracts, correspondence, blueprints, drawings, certificates, deeds and photographs of a Morgantown glass manufacturer noted for its production of handmade lead crystal glassware. The materials of this collection give insight into some of the daily activities of the company and its union such as determination of wages, settling of labor grievances, plans for expansion and modernization, productivity statistics and stock inventories. Specifically noteworthy are the...

Overview Collection of Thomas E. Goff of Morgantown relating to his fly tying, archery, and sports equipment business. Includes two bamboo fly rods, fly tying equipment and supplies, flys, two creels, three bows, leather finger tips and arm guards, a quiver, and arrows. Also includes 103 issues of a Goffs/Goughs family genealogical newsletter (1983-2003), and 6 issues of a Van Schaick family genealogical newsletter (2000-2005). There are photographs of Thomas E. Goff and family and friends from ca....

Content Description

Records and artifacts collected by the Weimer family of Morgantown, West Virginia. Members of their family worked for Seneca Glass in Morgantown. The collection includes company catalogs, brochures, photographs, paper glass patterns, glass molds, patterned glass tiles, and other material. This collection is minimally processed.