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Guide to the PPG Industries Inc. Ledgers and Photographs 1883-1981
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- Title
- PPG Industries Inc. ledgers and photographs 1883-1981
- Subject
- Pitcairn, John, Ford, John B, Capt., Patton Paint Company (Milwaukee, Wi.), Columbia Chemical Company (Barberton, Oh.), Glass trade--United States, Glass manufacture--United States, Glass fiber industry--United States
- Description
- The PPG Industries, Inc., ledgers and photographs contain ledger records documenting early PPG business transactions, as well as volumes from those companies acquired by the firm. The collection contains 38 volumes of ledger books, with 28 of these documenting PPG beginnings, from 1883 through the turn of the century. The remaining 10 volumes are those of companies that PPG acquired in the early twentieth century including Ditzler Color Company of Detroit, Mi., and Patton Paint Company of Milwaukee, Wi. There are numerous photographs depicting varying stages of the glass production process, industrial machinery and mechanisms utilized in production, window framings and aluminum casings, paint and paintbrush manufacture, and World War II Liberator B-24 production. There are seven PPG plant locations identified, including Barberton, Ohio; Creighton, Pa.; Corpus Christi, Tx.; Crystal City, Mo.; Henryetta, Ok.; Minneapolis, Mn.; and Meadville, Pa. The collection contains several oversized images, as well as PPG Industries, Inc., advertising reprints from 1975 through 1981, promoting the biochemical, fiberglass, chemical, paint, and specialty glass divisions., PPG Industries Inc. ledgers and photographs, 1883-1981, MSS 0667, Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., David Green Gift 1989 1989.0109, PPG Industries Inc. Gift 2000 2000.0137, PPG Industries Inc. Gift 2009 2009.0090, In 1883 Captain John B. Ford and John Pitcairn founded the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG), a reincorporation of the New York City Plate Glass Company that the two men began in 1880. The first factory was built in Creighton, Pa., in 1883, and its corporate headquarters was established in Pittsburgh in 1895. John Pitcairn began diversifying the firm soon after assuming the presidency, and in 1920 PPG consolidated its subsidiary companies under sole corporate ownership, and reorganized Columbia Chemical Co. and Patton Paint Co. into separate chemical and paint divisions within the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. PPG expanded into the booming automobile business by producing windshields, manufactured high-volumes of sheet glass for windows in suburban homes, and developed new lacquers and paints for both. During World War II, PPG factories were converted to military production, fabricating laminated aircraft carrier glass, pilot enclosures, and gun turrets. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company officially changed its name to PPG industries, Inc., in 1968, signifying the firms commitment to a diverse business model. Furthermore, with the development of float glass in 1973, an affordable and quality alternative to plate glass, PPG began phasing out is production of plate glass. Today, Pittsburgh-based PPG is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass, and fiber glass. The company has more than 140 manufacturing facilities and operates in more than 60 countries., Gifts of PPG Industries, and David Green., Processed MSS 0667 12/2/11 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- PPG Industries, Inc, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1883-1981
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 9.50 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:769139739, pitt:US-QQS-mss667
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss667
- Coverage
- United States, United States, United States, Chemical industry, United States, Creighton (Pa.), Meadville (Pa.), Barberton (Oh.), Corpus Christi (Tex.), Crystal City (Mo.), Henryetta (Ok.), Minneapolis (Mn.)
- Rights
- 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., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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