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• Aberthaw Construction Co., Boston, MA [?-1904-?]
• American 3-Way Prism Company, La Porte, IN [?-1926]
• American 3-Way Luxfer Prism Company, [1926-?]
• American Bar Lock Co., Philadelphia, PA [?-1911-1928-?]
• American Crystal Light Company, Boston, MA [?-1886-?]
  • Assignee of Schoenberg's Patent No. 354,440.
• American Luxfer Prism Company, see Luxfer Prism Company
• American Mason Safety Tread Co., 40 Water, Boston, MA [?-1905-?]
• American Plate Glass Co., Williamsburgh, Long Island
  • "AMERICAN PLATE GLASS COMPANY -- (Factory Williamsburgh, L. I.) are now prepared to execute orders for rough Plate Glass, suitable for floors, skylights, vault, and deck lights. Prompt attention will be given to orders left at the office, 442 Broadway, or their agent, J. R. PLATT, 79 Murray st." [Scientific American, August 18, 1855, page 391; Cornell]
  • "AMERICAN PLATE GLASS CO. Having erected extensive works in East Brooklyn, (foot of North Sixth st.) are now prepared to execute promptly all orders forwarded to them, for Rough Plate Glass, for Sky Lights, Floor Lights, Pavements, Deck Lights for vessels, &c. ... All orders left at the office the Company will receive prompt attention. Office 420 Broadway. Rough Plate Glass in the Sheet at the factory, 1-4 in. 35c.; 3-8 in. 35c.; 1-2 in. 40c.; 5-8 in. 60c; 3-4 in. 75c.; 7-8 in. 80.; 1 in. 85c.; 1 1-4 in. $1.25. Terms cash in 30 days." [Scientific American, August 18, 1855, page 287; Cornell]
• American Prismatic Light Co., Philadelphia, PA [?-1908-?]
• E. T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works, 99-105 Shelby, Detroit, MI [?-1905-?]
• Bartlett, Haywood & Co., Continental Trust Building, Baltimore, MD [?-1905-?]
• Wm. Bayley & Sons Co., 732 Greenbush, Milwaukee, WI [?-1905-?]
• Brooklyn Vault Light Co., Brooklyn, NY [?-1903-1917-?]
• Brown & Ketcham Iron Works, Indianapolis, IN [?-1905-?]
• Berger Manufacturing Company, Canton, OH [1886-Present]
  • Raydiant
• Brooklyn Vault Light Co., Brooklyn, NY [?-1903-1917-?]
• T. H. Brooks & Co.,
  960 Lake, Cleveland, OH [1890-1905-?]
  • "Floor & Sidewalk Lights of very description"
  • "Thomas H. Brooks. Cleveland. T. H. Brooks & Co. Born in Indiana, Oct. 10, 1846. Came to Cleveland in early childhood. Attended the public schools. Graduated from Williams College in 1879, degree of A.B. Started T. H. Brooks, foundry and structural iron husiness in 1875. Formed firm of T. H. Brooks & Co. in 1890. One of the organizers of the East End Banking & Trust Co. in 1890, president for a number of years. Director The Cleveland Trust Co. Member Adv. Council Guardian Trust Co. Interested in other corporations. Member Union, University, Country and Euclid clubs. Politically a Republican. Trustee Second Presbyterian church." —Progressive Men of Northern Ohio, 1906
• T. H. Brooks & Co., Cleveland, OH [?-1904-?]
  • "Floor and Sidewalk Lights of Every Description" (The Engineering Record, Volume 49, Number 16; April 16, 1904)
• Brown Brothers Mfg. Co., Chicago, IL [1860-1882-?]
• P. M. Bruner Granitoid Co., 532 Frisco Building, St. Louis, MO [1878-1927-?]
• Burnet, Jackson & Co.
  • "In the gaslight- and pre-gaslight era, skylights were built into sidewalks to allow as much sunlight as possible to filter into basement areas. This one, on Grand Street, was built by the Burnet Jackson Company (Excelsior Iron Works), which, if you look at the inscription at right, was located both at Centre and Howard Streets and also at 14th Street and the East River." forgotten NY street scenes (manhole & coal chute covers)
• C. B. S. Co. Inc., Los Angeles, CA
• Cadillac Glass Company, Chicago, IL [?-1938-?]
• Canton Glass Company, Canton, OH [1883-1890], Marion, Indiana [1890-1939-?]
• Carr & Andrews Corporation, 64 Federal, Boston, MA [?-1905-?]
• Champion Iron Company, Kenton, OH [1876-1910-?]
• Chelmsford Foundry Co., 177 Devonshire, Boston, MA [?-1905-?]
• Chicasaw Iron Works, Memphis, TN [?-1905-?]
• Christopher & Simpson Architectural Iron & Foundry Co., 811 Park Ave., St. Louis, MO [?-1905-?]
• Cleveland Window Glass Co.
  • 232 to 240 Champlain and 67 to 71 Michigan; Telephones: Main 473 and 1579 [1899-1900 Cleveland City Directory]
  • [1900-01 CDD listing, same addresses and phones]
  • 232 to 240 (old Champlain and 67 to 71 (old Michigan; Both Phones [1905-06 CDD]
• Chicago Sidewalk Light Co., 101 Washington, Chicago, IL [?-1905-?]
• Columbia Ornamental Iron Company, Canton, OH [1890-1937-?]
• Condie-Neale Glass Co., St. Louis, MO [1903-1915?]
• Continuous Glass Prism Co., where?, [?-1910-?]
  • "Approved in Pressed Prism Glass Co. v. Continuous Glass Prism Co., 181 Fed. 154, patentee of process of making prism plate glass may recover as damages amount of profits it would have made on quantity of glass sold by infringer, and amount lost on its own sales by low prices forced by infringer" --Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports, 1919
• Cooperative Flint Glass Co., Limited, Beaver Falls, PA [1869-1937].
• Cornell's Iron Works, New York, NY [?-1856-1897-?]
• Cress & Co., Inc. (REDIMADE)
• S. J. Creswell Iron Works, 23rd & Cherry, Philadelphia, PA [?-1905-?]
• Crown Iron Works, 115 2nd Av., Minneapolis, MN [?-1905-?]
• Dauchy & Company, 125 & 127 Indiana Street ("near Wells"), Chicago, IL [1874-?]
• Daylight Glass Mfg. Co., 608 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA [?-1902-1908-?]
  • Advertising Card
• Daylight Prism Co., Chicago, IL [1899-1908-?]
  • 1114 Chamber of Commerce, Chicago; 1401-1402 Manhattan Building, Chicago
  • "They Light Your Dark Rooms. / Make Them Bright and Cheerful. / Prices Made So You Can Afford to Buy Them."
  • "A corporation formed under the laws of New Jersey, October 19, 1899. The object of the company is to extend the sale of daylight prisms throughout the United States. The factory of the company is in Philadelphia. The Daylight Prism Co., of Pennsylvania, was merged with this company." ... "President, Charles H. Graham; Vice-President, Samuel B. Vrooman; Secretary and Treasurer, H. M. Cummings. Directors: Charles H. Graham, Thomas W. Synnott, B. J. Woodward, John P. Whitney, James A. Hayes, Samuel B. Vrooman, George K. Cummings. Office and transfer agency, 132 South Fourth street, Philadelphia." — The Manual of Statistics (Stock Exchange Handbook), Vol 23, 1901
  • "Daylight Prism Co. v. Marcus Prism Co.", Federal Reporter 110 (1901): 980-85.
  • 1900 Catalog
• Thos. Dimond, New York, NY [?-1905-?]
• Empire Vault Light Co., New York, NY [?-1933-1944-?]
  • Owner: Meyer Goldberg (wife Gertrude) [1933]
  • "[Cases] George Goldberg and Meyer Goldberg, copartners, doing business under the trade name and style of Empire Vault Light Co. v. United States; report of commissioner. [1944.] no. 45516, p. 27-30. Ju 3.8: Em 73" —United States Government Publications, July 1944 Monthly Catalog
  • Gallery
• Chas. F. Ernst, Buffalo, NY [?-1905-?]
• Excelsior Iron Works (Burnet Jackson Co.), 14th St. East River & Centre & Howard St., New York, NY
  • Geo. R. Jackson's Sons
  • Designs Underfoot (Diana Stuart):
    • "By 1850 Jackson's Excelsior foundry was listed at Centre St. under hardware"
    • "An 1868 hand-colored map shows Excelsior Iron Works spanning E. 13 and 14 Sts. between Aves. C and D"
    • "A beautiful 1887 hand-colored illustration of the foundry on a map shows it covering the entire city block"
  • General John McArthur: "...immigrated to the United States in 1849. McArthur worked in Chicago as a boilermaker, then began the Excelsior Iron Works with his brother-in-law. In 1861, he was the sole owner of the company, and was active in the state militia's Highland Guard. ... He left the military in August of 1865, and returned to his iron business. It did poorly..." Union Generals
• Fletcher & Crowell Co., Portland, ME [?-1905-?]
• J. C. French & Sons, New York, NY
• Globe Iron & Foundry Co., Corner 9th & Victor, St. Louis, MO [?-1905-?]
• Albert Grauer & Company, Detroit, MI [1905-1927-?]
• L. M. Ham & Co., 152 Portland, Boston, MA [?-1905-?]
• Hetherington & Berner, 19 W. South, Indianapolis, IN [?-1905-?]
• F. L. Heughes Co., 190 South Ave., New York, NY [?-1905-?]
• Horrocks Iron Works, 234 N. Broad, Philadelphia, PA [?-1905-?]
• Howell, 353 Adams St., New York, NY
  • Gallery
• Hyatt Brothers, New York ["Hyatt Lights", "Hyatt's patent covers"]
  • Thaddeus Hyatt & Co.
  • Thaddeus Hyatt Improved Illuminating Tile Company (see Patent No. 365,306).
  • "Hyatt Theodore, 6 Wooster, see adv"
  • 45 Greene St.
  • "patent vaults and patent lights, sky lights, floor lights, shop lights, &c., 4th story"
  • "In 1845 Thaddeus Hyatt patented a unique lighting system that neatly complemented Bogardus's creation. Thick glass discs set within iron grilles were placed in the sidewalk in front of a warehouse letting natural light into the basement and avoiding the need for gas lighting and its attendant fumes."
  • Gallery
• P. H. Jackson & Co., 225-229 First St., San Francisco, CA [?-1905-?]
  • Brass ID plate found on dozens of steel sidewalk plates in Sacramento.
  • Patents 587210, 699468, and 725846.
  • In 1905, address shown as just 228 First St. (expanded later?)
• Jacobs & Sons (later Jacobs Co.), New York, NY [1845-1908-?]
• Jeannette Glass Company, Jeannette, PA [1888-1983]
• H. Chas. Judge Mfg. Co. (Searchlight Prisms), Los Angeles, CA [?-1909-?]
  • "617 Pacific Elec. Bldg. Dl. H. Chas. Judge Mfg. & Bldg. Co." —Directory of American Cement Industries (1909)
• Jupiter Prism Co., Davenport, IN
• Luminous Prism Co., Cleveland, ON
• Luxfer Prism Company, Chicago, IL [1897-1926]
• Madison Avenue Foundry Co., 155 E. Madison Ave., Cleveland, OH [?-1905-?]
• Mahony Manufacturing Co., 5th Ave., corner Liberty, Troy, NY [?-1905-?]
• Marcus Prism Co.
  • "Daylight Prism Co. v. Marcus Prism Co.", Federal Reporter 110 (1901): 980-85.
• Jacob Mark, New York, NY [?-1868-1905-?]
• Megquier & Jones Co., 33 Pearl, Portland, ME [?-1905-?]
• Merritt Co., 1024 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, PA [?-1905-?]
• Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co., Minneapolis, MN [?-1905-?]
• Minwax Vault Light Cement
  • "All expansion joints in the terrace floor between the stylobates and the balustrade walls were to be cleaned to the depth of the upper slab and blown out with compressed air. When clean, they were to be primed with Minwax Asphalt Primer and allowed to dry. Minwax Vault Light Cement would be poured into the joints and made flush with then top of the slab. Before this hardened, a coat of clean white sand was to be sprinkled on the surface of the joints to prevent adhesion of the asphalt compound to pedestrian traffic."
    George Rogers Clark NHP, Historic Structures Report, The 1943-44 Rehabilitation Program at the Memorial
• Morlite Company, 404 West Ohio St., Chicago, IL
• National Glass Works, Union & 22nd Streets, Bellaire, OH [1869-1984]
• National Vault Light Co., 537 Jackson Avenue, (Bronx) New York, NY [?-1932-?]
• New Jersey Foundry & Machine Co., 9 Murray, New York, NY [?-1905-?]
• New York Prism Company, 473 West Broadway, New York City, NY [?-1906-?]
  • Sweet's 1906 listing (one page)
• New York Vault Light Company, New York, NY [?-1913-?]
• Northwestern Foundry (S. T. Ferguson, Prop.), 312 S. 10th, Minneapolis, MN [?-1905-?]
• Paxton & Vierling Iron Works, 17th & U.P. Railroad, Omaha, NE [?-1905-?]
• Phoenix Steel Construction Co., Penn Ave. & 3rd, Pittsburg, PA [?-1905-?]
• Leo Popper & Sons, No. 143-147 Franklin St., New York, NY [1880-1971]
• Pressed Prism Glass Co., Morgantown, WV [1903-1934?]
  • Mfg prism tiles for Luxfer and their own prismatic products
  • "Closed. Employed about fifty." —Report [by Henry W. Francis, Federal Emergency Relief Adminstration], Clarksburg, West Virginia, November 25, 1934
• Prismatic Glass Co. , New Hampshire [owned Pennycuick's 1882 patent from 1887-89]
• Radiating Light Co., Chicago, IL [Oct 1896-1897 becoming Luxfer]
  • Founded on James G. Pennycuick's 1882 patent [#?]
  • John Meiggs Ewen, President, Henry M. Bacon, Secretary, Thomas W. Horn, and James G. Pennycuick founders.
  • Dec 1896 changed names to Semi-Prism Glass Company
  • Apr 1897 changed names to Luxfer (Latin lux for light and ferre meaning to carry)
• Ransome & Smith Co., 11 Broadway, New York, NY [?-1905-?]
• J. Merrill Richards, Boston, MA [?-1927-?]
• Richards & Kelly Mfg. Co., 389 & 391 Twenty-Third St., Chicago, IL
• P. Rieseck, Corner Allegheny Ave. & Rebecca, Allegheny, PA [?-1905-?]
• Rockwell's Patent Lights, "Broadway, near John St., New York", NY [?-1835-?]
• Rodefer Glass Company, see National Glass Works
• Rodefer-Gleason Glass Company, see National Glass Works
• Russell Wheel & Foundry Co., Detroit, MI [?-1905-?]
• St. Paul Foundry Co., Como Ave. & Mackabin, St. Paul, MN [?-1905-?]
• L. Schreiber & Sons Co., 8th & Eggleston Ave., Cincinnati, OH [?-1905-?]
• Semi-Prism Glass Co., see Luxfer Glass Company
• Smith & Lovett, 36 Devonshire St., Boston [1813-1922-?]
  • 125 Albany (1905)
  • "SUCCESSORS TO D. BAFFORD & CO.
  • Uses Hyatt's 1845 patent
  • "Established 1813. / SMITH & LOVETT / Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of / IRON WORK FOR BUILDINGS, / Store Fronts, Hyatt Lights, Stable Work, ELEVATORS, HOISTING MACHINES / Slaters' and Masons' Tools, Builders' Hardware, Store Trucks of all kinds. / JOBBING A SPECIALTY. ESTIMATES GIVEN. / 125, 127 and 129 Albany St., Boston." —The Boston almanac and business directory, 1885
  • "ESTABLISHED 1813 / SMITH & LOVETT, / Blacksmiths and Machinists, / IRON-WORK FOR BUILDINGS. FIRE-ESCAPES, ELEVATORS, HOISTING-MACHINES. / BUILDERS' HARDWARE, STORE TRUCKS, ETC. / 125, 127, AND 129 ALBANY STREET - BOSTON." —Catalogue of the architectural exhibition held in the new public library building, Oct. 28 to Nov. 4, Boston Society of Architects, 1891
• Smith Wire & Iron Works, 100 Lake, Chicago, IL [?-1905-?]
• Snead Architectural Iron Works, Louisville, KY & Jersey City, NJ [?-1905-?]
• Solar Prism Company, Cleveland, OH
• Standard Glass Co., Cleveland, OH
  • "Mnfrs. of Solar Prism Glass, 222 Champlain av. Tel. Main 2768; James G. Brown, mngr." [1899-1900 CDD]
• Steward & Stevens Iron Works, 9th, corner Montgomery., Philadelphia, PA [?-1905-?]
• Tice & Jacobs, New York, NY
• W. & J. Tiebout Co., New York, NY [?-1905-?]
• Towle Vault Light Co., 481 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY [?-1897/98-?] (Lain's Directory)
• Tucker & Vinton Corporation, New York, NY [?-1904-1906-?]
  • Vault Lights sub-contractor for 1904 New York Subway (Interborough Rapid Transit, page 152, see bibliography)
  • Sweet's 1906 listing (one page)
• United States Glass Company, Pittsburgh, PA [1891-1908-?]
• United States Prismatic Light Company, Baltimore, MD [?-1886-?]
  • See U.S. patent No. 342,030
  • Formed by Louis Nelke?
• Van Dorn Iron Works Co., 1793 E. Madison Ave., Cleveland, OH [?-1905-?]
• Vulcan Co., Detroit, MI [?-1905-?]
• Wallace Foundry & Machine Co., Lafayette, IN [?-1905-?]
• Youngstown Wire & Iron Co., Youngstown, OH [?-1905-?]