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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fourco Glass Company Records, A&M 2870, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
The Fourco Glass Company archives include correspondence, a few sheets of financial data, blueprints and mechanical drawings, patents, appraisal reports, newspaper clippings and photographs from a West Virginia - based manufacturer with plants in Clarksburg. Many of the records reflect the company's concern for changes in production techniques, patent rights, and improvements in flat glassmaking both in Europe and the U.S. Some of the correspondence is in French. The clippings and photographs document labor relations, personnel changes in the white collar employee group, and trends in the American glass industry. There is also some information to the Rolland family, founders of the Rolland Glass Company in Clarksburg and one of the founders in Fourco. There is information on the founding and development of Fourco in the inventory folder. There is also a video cassette made from excerpts from movie film taken inside Fourco's Adamston plant in Clarksburg.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Fourco Glass Company
- Glass industry - labor relations.
- Glass industry - patents.
- Glass industry.
- LaFayette Window Glass Company
- Rolland Glass Company
- Rowland family
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Newspaper clippings (concerning foreign imports of glass and labor relations) and photographs [ring binder]undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Correspondence [1935-1940] (concerning glass manufacturing in Belgium and France and the outbreak of World War II in Europe) and financial data on the Rolland Glass Company1935-1940, undated