Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company workers photograph   Save
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Description: The first caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Polishing Glass, Rossford (Toledo) Photograph by courtesy of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company." The second caption explains the action in the photograph: "The rough "blanks" of plate glass are ground and polished on continuous tables more than a city block long. Here men are shown placing plaster of Paris on the various "blanks" to hold them in place. Man in foreground is spreading out the setting plaster. In the background a suction-cup lifter is lowering a "blank" upon the production line for grinding and polishing in a a [sic] Toledo plant of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_009_1
Subjects: Glass grinding and polishing; Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; Factories; Industries--Ohio--Toledo
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio); Rossford (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)