Hazel-Atlas Glass Company

Hazel-Atlas Glass Company

The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania,cite web |url=http://www.firstclassglass.com/hazelatlasreamers.html |title=Kitchen GlassHazel Atlas Reamers |publisher=firstclassglass.com |accessdate=2007-11-18] as the merger of four companies:
*Hazel Glass and Metals Company
*Atlas Glass Company
*Wheeling Metal Plant
*Republic Glass Company

History

By the 1930’s, Hazel-Atlas had fifteen plants and was the largest glass manufacturer in the world. It continued to make containers, glassware and tableware until the 1950s. In 1956, Hazel-Atlas, at that time the third largest producer of glass containers in the U.S., was acquired by the Continental Can Company. The acquisition was challenged under the Clayton Antitrust Act in a case that was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in "United States v. Continental Can Co.".

Patterns

Hazel-Atlas produced dozens of different patterns, with unique names. The Hazel-Atlas mark, usually placed on the back of the product, is an "A" nestled underneath an "H".

External links and references

* [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050220/news_1hs20collect.html Hazel-Atlas Depression glass a field unto itself] , from a February 2005 article in "The San Diego Union-Tribune"


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