Title: Edward Drummond Libbey, American glassmaker
Description: "Edward Drummond Libbey changed the glass industry with his automatic bottle-making and sheet glass machines. This work examines Libbey's career, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for Toledo Museum of Art's collection"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co, Glass manufacture, History, Artists, biography
Places: United States, Ohio
People: Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925)