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| 1936-1937 · ARC ID 518631
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. A skilled worker at T.C.
Wheaton grinding glass stoppers for glass bottles. An emery wheel
revolved inside the casing to the right of the lamp. The girl presses
the stopper against the emery wheel and smooths off the edges. It is
up to her to judge the size of the stopper and to shape it accordingly." |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518632
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Paint sprayer, T. C. Wheaton
Co. art room. This man is spraying white glass cold cream jars with
a hand blowing torch. This is one of the new processes developed by
T. C. Wheaton. The jars are put on the forms by a girl who sits at the
other side of the machine. They revolve around to this worker who
sprays them. The girl then takes the jar off and replaces it with a
new one." |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518633
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Two girls stamping glass jars
in the art room at T. C. Wheaton Company. This is a stamping device
developed by this company for lettering painted bottles. Ink is put
under the screen in which there are perforations for the lettering, and
the jar is rolled over the top of it. The girl in front is controlling
the lever which presses the jar as it rolls over the screen." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518634
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Stopper-grinder at T. C. Wheaton Co" |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518635
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
A bottle with the stopper may be seen directly in the lower center
of the picture. |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518636
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. A wash and tie girl
tying stoppers to bottles. This is one of the few unskilled jobs for
women in the glass factory. A wash and tie girl takes the bottle from
the stopper grinders, washes it with automatic sprayers and ties the
stopper to the bottle for packaging. (T. C. Wheaton Co.)." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518637
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T. C. Wheaton Co.
A gaffer finishing a wide mouthed bottle. The man on the right takes
the bottle from the blower on a rod and puts it on a gas flame, which
may be seen behind the corrugated tin. When the neck of the bottle is
re-heated to sufficient temperature, the gaffer on the left of this
picture takes it over the fire and shapes it with iron tools by
twirling it back and forth. The snapping-up boy then takes it over to
be annealed." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518638
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
A pressing shop finishing door knobs. Pressed door knobs are put
on to rods seen in the center right of the picture and are rolled
along on the machine in front of gas flames, to be polished. They
are taken off by the man in the center of the picture who twists
the ends of the knobs to finish them." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518639
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T. C. Wheaton gaffer
finishing necks of wide mouthed jars. He rotates the bottle on a
sheet of iron pressing open the mouth with the tool he is holding
in his right hand. The jars are then taken by snapping-up boy to
be annealed. The white formation on the right hand side of the
picture is molten glass which has been hung there by the blowers.
It is the excess glass which has been left over after they finished
blowing the bottle." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518640
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
The flint glass shop showing a blower rotating a bottle as he blows
it in an iron mould. A mould boy is sitting on the floor. The blower
takes the glass from the oven, puts in a mould and as he blows he
slowly works it around in his hand. When the shutting mould boy
opens the mould a second boy carries it away to be annealed." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518641
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Pressing and shaping
in T. C. Wheaton Co." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518642
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles - T.C. Wheaton Co.
Green glass monkey shop" |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518643
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
Men working in shop." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518644
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
Men working in shop." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518645
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
Pressing and shaping." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518646
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. T.C. Wheaton Co.
The second shop of the shot in 411, finishing door knobs. The man
at the right has taken the polished and finished door knobs and
putting them on a shovel at the right hand side of the picture." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518647
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock
spinning glass wool" |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518648
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock Co.
The second shot of the process" |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518649
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock.
Drawing glass from a tube. Each of the protruded knobs in the front
of the iron cross bars is a glass tube which extends to the rear of
the machine. The gas flames to the right center of the picture heat
the glass tubes. The worker is taking a piece of the molten glass
on a glass rod to draw it across the room to the wheel where it is
spun. This particular machine moves back as the glass rod is used
up." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518650
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass wool. Frederick and Dimmock Co.
This shows the worker drawing the glass which he has brought from
the other side of the room over on a wheel. As the wheel spins the
glass is drawn out from the tubing and the product is the glass wool
which the worker is holding in his left hand. It can be cut off the
wheel when the tubing is finished." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518651
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. L. G. Nestor Co.
Tube worker blowing conductivity cell. This highly skilled worker
takes glass tubing and blows it into the intricate shapes needed
for chemical ware. He uses blue prints in determining the size of
the bottles he blows. The glass is heated ready for blowing over
the small gas flame shown in the left center of the picture." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518652
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. L.G. Nestor Co.
Worker finishing the end of a sulphur determinator. Here the worker
is smoothing off the end of the tubing after heating it over the gas
flame." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518653
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum green
glass shop" |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518654
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum.
[Men working at ovens.]" |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518655
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Mould shop Whitall
Tatum Co. This skilled machinist is running a machine which faces
off the mould and carves it to the shape of the bottle. Square
iron blocks are hollowed out to the desired shape by this machine." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518656
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. The letterer in the
Whitall Tatum mould shop. This man is chiseling out by hand letters
in the mould of a bottle. He works according to a design which has
been drawn in the mould in pencil." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518657
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum Co.
A worker taking a bottle off of an I. S. automatic blowing machine
for testing." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518658
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum Co.
A worker running a Lynch bottle machine. This is an older machine
than the I. S." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518659
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum Co.
A Lynch bottle machine at work. In the center may be seen a blob
of molten glass ready to drop into a mould." |
03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518660
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum Co.
Second shot of a worker taking a bottle of of an I. S. automatic
blowing machine for testing." |
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| 03/26/1937 · ARC ID 518661
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Whitall Tatum packer
testing bottles before putting them into the carton at the lower
right hand corner. He takes up four bottles at a time and turns
them over to judge imperfections in the glass, color, weight, and
shape. This has become a very high skilled job since the standards
set by the machine production so nearly approach perfection." |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518662
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Men at work.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518663
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Two men at work.]" |
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| 1936-1937 · ARC ID 518664
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Man reaching into ovens.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518665
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Man at work.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518666
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Man working at ovens.]" |
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| 1936-1937 · ARC ID 518667
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [One man sitting
while other man blows glass.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518668
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Man looking at machine.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518669
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Man inspecting
bottles.]" |
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| 1936-1937 · ARC ID 518670
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Machinery.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518671
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Machiney and bottles.]" |
1936-1937 · ARC ID 518672
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Bottles moving along
a conveyor belt.]" |
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| 1936-1937 · ARC ID 518673
"Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. [Numerous bottles
in foreground and bottles on a conveyor belt.]" |
