The Glassport Land Company was formed on October 4, 1894, after the USGC purchased approximately 500 acres of land along the Monongahela River, intending eventually to concentrate all of its factories at this location. For example, during the 1890s, a Gas City, Indiana plant was added to the merger as well as a tank operation at Glassport, Pennsylvania. From 1891 to the early 1920s, various glass factories within this merger either ceased operations or left, while others were added, resulting in the number of factories under the USGC merger to fluctuate between nine and twelve. On July 1, 1891, the company merged between thirteen and eighteen fully operational glass companies located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The United States Glass Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, confronted at the turn of the century by crises in the glass industry labor unrest, foreign competition, and increasing dependency upon gas rather than coal for manufacturing purposes, began a major reorganization. This collections was processed and the register was completed by Frederick Honneffer in March 1985, with revisions completed by Marilyn Levinson, Curator of Manuscripts in June, 1994. No restrictions exist on the use of this collection and duplication is permitted for research purposes. This collection was donated to the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio on Augby the Seneca Industrial Economic Development Corporation. The photographs, drawings and blueprints are of post-World War II vintage and belonged to the Tiffin Glass Company. The financial records contain information for United States Glass Company factories in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania with the latter receiving a great amount of coverage.
The collection is representative of the American pressed and blown glassware industry of the early to mid-twentieth century as reflected in the company's general, distribution, production, sales, and stock ledgers not to mention its fine selection of glassware photographs, sketches, pattern rubbings, mold designs and machinery blueprints. The financial records and production materials of the Tiffin Glass Company and its predecessor/parent, the United States Glass Company, primarily cover the years 1891to 1945, with a few records documenting the years 1945 to 1970. MS 401 - Tiffin Glass Company (Tiffin, Ohio)
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