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Box 1

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

"Centennial history of W. S. Libbey Company", ca. 1979-1987

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Various typescripts drafts by Ruth Libbey O'Halloran, "W. S. Libbey, the man and his mills" (by the Libbey grandchildren, 1979 – other copies appear in this collection, including the original newspaper article, which appears in the Lewiston Journal June 30, 1979 – see O.S. Folder 2), manuscript notes by Phil H. Meldrum (and ?) which may or may not be related to the histories.

Dates: ca. 1979-1987

Writing a history of the company, 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and printed material related to writing a history of the W. S. Libbey Company, by Ruth Libbey O'Halloran.

Dates: 1986

19th century documents, 1895 - 1897

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Patent of water wheel governor by W. S. Libbey (patented Sept. 3, 1895), agreement between W. S. Libbey and H. M. Dingley (Jan. 11, 1897).

Dates: 1895 - 1897

Scrapbook pages (removed from binder), ca. 1889-1981

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, manuscript notes. Clippings transferred to clippings folder in Box 2.

Dates: ca. 1889-1981

Court case (1905), 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of original typescript from 1905. Decree of Judge Savage – Libbey & Dingley vs. Union Water Power Co.

Dates: 1986

Sinking Fund Trustees Day Book, 1945 - 1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript account book.

Dates: 1945 - 1947

"Capitalist system to fit present needs" by Joseph M. Lurie, ca. 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Typescript (carbon copy) with address "12 Libby Avenue, Lewiston, Maine."

Dates: ca. 1940

W. S. Libbey documents, ca. 1941-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

"Libbey auto-call" (newsletter), analysis sheets, "TRAMs" (list of names), calling cards for "Roland Gagne and his country boys," and correspondence and broadside from the "Tam-O-Shanter Club" in Poland Springs.

Dates: ca. 1941-1957

Viking – a Libbey blanket, labels, ca. 1950

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Labels (green, grey, and white).

Dates: ca. 1950

Scrapbook pages, 1950 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Pages removed from binder but some still in original sleeves (at some point remove for better care). Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, greeting cards. Includes items related to the death of W. Scott Libbey in 1965.

Dates: 1950 - 1975