Glassblowers hand-blowing glass

ca. 1940

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Glassblowers hand-blowing glass
  • Title
  • Glassblowers hand-blowing glass
  • Creator
  • PPG Industries
  • Date
  • ca. 1940
  • Identifier
  • 20170227-hpichswp-0015
  • Description
  • Glassblowers hand-blowing glass by utilizing a blowpipe in order to inflate molten glass into a cylinder that is then cooled, cut, reheated, and formed into a flat sheet of glass. In order to elongate the molten glass into a cylinder, the glassblowers make use of holes in the plant floor as they swing the glass and force air through the blowpipe in order to expand the cylinder.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries.
    Glass manufacture.
    Glassworkers.
    Glass blowing and working.
  • Source
  • PPG Industries Records, 1888-1995, MSS 667, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • PPG Industries Records
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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