Women in Glass: Advertising & Consumers

Review of the exhibition "America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex." Includes profile of the Corning Glass Works test kitchen where home economists tested recipes, evaluated product designs, monitored consumer reviews, and trained sales staff.

his collection consists of magazine advertisements for glassware for the table and home. The U.S. American magazines "House and Garden" and "House Beautiful" are the primary sources of the advertisements. Companies represented include Steuben, Libbey, Cambridge, Fostoria, Blenko, Seneca, Westmoreland, Duncan, Heisey, Anchorglass, and others.

The collected primary source materials assembled by Pyrex collector Dianne M. Williams are arranged into five series: (1) Advertisements, 1915-1980 ; (2) Photocopied Advertisements, 1915-1986 ; (3) Booklets, 1922-1943 ; (4) Ephemera, 1907-1949 ; (5) Dianne M. Williams Pyrex Book Manuscript, circa 2010.