Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Research Center

1935/1980

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Research Center
  • Title
  • Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Research Center
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Photographic Department
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F12.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F12.I01
  • Description
  • Pittsburgh Plate Class Company Research Center, Glass Division, Harmar Township, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG) began as the New York City Plate Glass Company when it was founded in 1880 by Captain John B. Ford, an entrepreneur, and John Pitcairn, a railroad official. The first plant was located northeast of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in Creighton, Pennsylvania. By 1883 the company headquarters were moved to Pittsburgh, and the plants were producing 20 million square feet of plate glass per year. PPG quickly moved into research and development, building its first research center in 1910. To insure a continuous flow of new glass products, the Glass Division built this new research and development facility in 1958.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries (Harmar (Township: Allegheny County)).Glass Division.Research Center.
    Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Harmar Township.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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