Resources

MAGWV Database

The Museums database is constantly being updated as new items are accessioned and photographed. The pandemic has created issues for the museum and we have not been able to add the documentation as we normally do, but keep checking back.

American Flint Glass Workers Archives

As a repository of glass history and a chronicle of the labor movement, they are unparalleled. Check out the most significant items in the Flint Archives

EAPGS Index

We are pleased to offer a link to the “Early American Pattern Glass Index” as an additional resource for pattern identification. While using their identification site, consider joining their Facebook Group and organization to support their efforts.

Cambridge Glass Company Resource

We recently received the following message from Larry Everett:

“Greetings, I am one of the digital archivists from the National Cambridge Collectors, Inc. We have in the last year started a digital library. Here’s the link to the front door: https://cambridgeglasslibrary.com. We have added all the catalogs, price lists, newsletters, and just recently completed adding about 16,000 turn cards.

We welcome you and your members to use this resource. As you know we also have a digital database with more than 32,000 images at: mvsg.org.”

This is truly an incredible resource. MAGWV is now partnering with NCC to make some of our archival materials available as part of this project. All records in this database are indexed and searchable by pattern name and other key words, making it a valuable adjunct to the original mvsg.org image repository. We thank NCC for their willingness to share this remarkable collection.

Fenton Catalogs

Long-time friends of MAGWV Ken and Margaret Whitmyer have under taken a project to scan all of the Fenton Catalogues they possibly can and format them in a readable text format. This resource currently contains catalogues from 1940, 1942, 1943, and a Catalogue on Coin Dot. Keep checking back as we will continue to update this Resource as the Whitmyers scan more catalogue.

Catalog Holdings

The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia has an ever-growing library of glass-related research books. Many of them are out of print. Visitors and researchers are welcome to look through any book and take notes. These books all have copyrights making it impossible for us to provide copies of any of the material.

Click this button to open a searchable database containing the titles of glass-related research books currently located in the Museum.

Oral Histories

We are pleased to be able to have the oral histories of Becky Moore, who was a glass decorator at Bailey Glass, Celso Lopez and his wife Lupita, who worked as glass workers at Louie Glass, Carl Hartzelll, who was a glass cutter at PPG and AFG, and Paul Weinberger and Sons, pattern maker. In addition we also have videos of Dean Six and Tom Felt talking about the museum.