American Flint Glass Workers Union Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2642
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.
English
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11.5 Linear Feet (Summary: 11 ft. 5 3/4 in. (23 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 clamshell box, 3 in.); (2 books, 1 in. each); (1 record carton, 15 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1/4 in.))
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 (1927-2008), former employee of Fostoria Glass Company and former American Flint Glass Workers 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. Some of the material in the 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. For more information on the addendum, see the Scope and Content Note.
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