Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker
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About the Book
Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 242
Bibliographic Info: 27 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2011
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6335-0
eISBN: 978-0-7864-8548-2
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 3
1. A Crisis in Frogtown 5
2. A Personal and Industrial Genealogy 18
3. Edward Drummond Libbey 31
4. Toledo and Northwest Ohio of the 1880s 46
5. The Business Men’s Association 52
6. Florence Scott 61
7. The Turnaround 71
8. The Columbian World Fair 82
9. Industrialist and Glass Aristocrat 89
10. The Toledo Glass Company 100
11. Signature Years 108
12. The Glass Capitalist 124
13. Europe and Expansion 135
14. Grand Opening 152
15. The Story of Flat Glass 158
16. Working on a Legacy 170
17. The Taming of the Lion 179
18. Final Months 188
19. A Model CEO 196
20. An Industrial and Labor Republic 205
21. Industrial Designer and Marketing Genius 212
Chapter Notes 221
Bibliography 227
Index 229
