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Credit is gratefully given to the following individuals (alphabetical):

• István Ágoston, a decor designer in Hungary, donated pictures of very unusual Falconnier brique use at the House of Mihály Babits (1883-1941, famous Hungarian writer, poet, translator, and literary historian) in Esztergom, Hungary. István doesn't have his own site, but maintains a presence at the Kézzelfogható Foundation and Studio of Young Designers.
• Fernando Alva shot vault lights in Manhattan on Walker St. (at No. 40 and No. 42).
• Cédric Amey allowed use of his lovely photo of square Falconnier briques at Villa Bergeret. They are built in a clear/green checkerboard, very nice. Cédric's site nancy-guide.net (Tout Nancy-guide) is now defunct.
• Nikita Andreev provided photos and information about Falconnier glass bricks in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and other eastern countries, an 1899 Russian version of Falconnier's patent, and a PDF of Saint-Gobain's 1929 Dalles et Pavés catalog.
• Marie & Rodrigue Balaiz donated pictures of a fantastically beautiful cobalt blue No. 7 Falconnier glass brick.
• Patrick Baron of BaronArts donated a 20" glass/iron illuminated coalhole cover. Rescued it, crated that very heavy thing carefully and mailed it to me, gratis!
• Captain Daniel Berg of aquaexplorers.com allowed use his photos of deck prisms recovered from shipwrecks.
• David Braun of David Braun Photography (800-822-0102) donated pictures of vault lights in old downtown San Diego.
• Sebastian Brösel donated pictures of a blue No. 8 Falconnier glass brick.
• Regan Brumagen identified the little green lens cover from the Whatsits Gallery.
• Jonathan Bulkley scanned his 1885 letter from Dauchy & Co.
• Jeff Burke donated two nice prism tiles for my collection, a rare SOLORAP and an unusual plain tile where alternating prisms are at different angles — no idea who made either one. He also shot and donated pics of a Jupiter Prism transom in Oakland, California. You can see more prism glass at Jeff's site here.
• Tom Caniff added to the National Glass Works file, and donated it along with the three Rodefer photocopies.
• Rein Catsburg provided photos of his Emile Sanders/Vera-Lux vault light plate from Plan Zuid in Amsterdam.
• Bernard Cavalot (Stony Stratford) [RIP 3/2015] allowed use of his Haywards semi-prismatic pavement lights pictures and provided much useful information about pavement lights and pressed glass in general.
• Norah Clark provided information on Leo Popper & Sons (vault lights).
• Jonathan Clarke (London) donated pictures of Hayward Brothers stallboard lights and made numerous scans of articles, advertising, patent abridgements and other prism glass information.
• Stephen Collard (British Archives) provided this scan of an accumulator with glass battery rests from a ca 1920 Stubbs' Electrical Encyclopeadia.
• Jim and Greg Croff salvaged Searchlight Prisms from the Hotel San Diego and re-used them in a home project, documenting the whole process. They also donated leftover prisms to moi!
• Dave Dahle contributed photos of vaults lights at the North Dakota School for the Deaf.
• Christoph Eder of Anno Stein & Eisen, dealer in original historic building materials (architectural salvage), donated pictures of Marke Faust and Falconnier glass bricks. loaned insulators for the Millville and CD galleries, and
• Dave Elliott loaned insulators for the Millville and CD galleries, and provided photos of vault lights in Mountain View.
• Christian Fournié of L'atelier du verre Mousseline provided scans of his 1912 Catalogue du Verre Soleil
• Paul Greaves loaned his one-of-a-kind glass pin base for photographing and shared his insulator research.
• Dr. Pedro Guedes (Senior Lecturer in Architecture at The University of Queensland) has been a huge help, providing numerous scans and much early patent information.
• Mike Guthrie donated pictures of vault light panels seen on Seattle's Underground Tour.
• Ivo Haanstra provided or helped with several German translations; he also helped transcribe Edwin Popper's 1872 Report Card, as did other members of the Glass Message Board.
• Brandon Hartle located pictures of vault lights in the Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph Collection, and provided photos of vault lights in Sacramento and Portland.
• Architect Gunnar Hellman of Stockholm donated pictures of Luxfer leaded-glass work in the cupola of the natural history museum.
• Taco Hermans (Netherlands Department for Conservation) provided scans, photos and information about architectural glass in his country (including Falconnier glass bricks and vault lights in Amsterdam, Breda and Utrecht), and helped with translations.
• Lionel Hinnerblesse helped with the French-English translation of the urgent columns postcard.
• Colin Jung took pictures of a P. H. Jackson & Co. vault lights installation in Salinas, CA.
• Doug Hopkins donated pictures of a vault lights in Dunedin, New Zealand and has generously shared his research on prism glass in Oceania.
• Krisztina Kecskés, a glass artist living in Budapest, sent pictures of the incomparable Brudern Ház, and especially the Párisi Udvar with its fantastic glass use (including Luxfer vault lights).
• Vincent Lajoinie donated photos of Hector Guimard's fantastic decorative use of Falconnier glass bricks in the Castel Béranger. These shots first appeared in Vincent's Paris Archis (Paris Architecture) blog. Merci beaucoup!
• Jacques Lasserre donated photos of Falconnier glass bricks at the «Bella Vista» in Genève-Bellevue, Switzerland. You can see more of his Art Nouveau photography here.
• Mark Lauckner allowed use of his drawing, the basis for CD 143.
• Didier Leroy donated pictures of the amber Falconnier half-brick which he sold on eBay (I lost out to an unknown museum in France).
• Joye Lore-Lawson helped with the French-English translation of the Pierrot postcard (that tricky last line; some liberties taken, but for the better).
• Neil Marsden provided pictures of deck prisms on the Daniel Adamson, the last surviving steam-powered tug-tender in the U.K.
• Bill Meier gave HTML tips and Hemingray drawings of Lowex CDs [yet to be processed].
• Brian Merlis of Brooklyn Collectibles donated the two best vault lights photographs: 18th St. subway 1905 and Penn Station 1938.
• Ruben Michel Murillo donated pictures of vault lights at Tijuana's Casa de la Cultura, including shots from above and below the same panels.
• Bill Mullen donated pictures of the vault light sales kit handed down by his grandfather Leo Mullen (of Mullen Replaceable Vault Light fame), plus scans of MRVL Co photos and blueprints, an original MRVL catalog, and a Richards & Kelly catalog.
• Lise Noël shared her research on Ernest Chanteloup, the Montréal foundryman (who also made vault lights).
• Bill Ostrander gets photo credit for displays H & Q at the 2003 NIA Western Regional at San José.
• Craig Partridge, a distant cousin, provided details of Leo Popper's early timeline.
• Robert Paterson took this picture of P. M. Bruner vault lights in Houston, Texas.
• Sam Pruett donated pictures of vault lights and signage in Chicago.
• Dick Roller (R.I.P.) was the primary researcher of the National Glass Works datums
• Gary Romprey donated pictures of the purple Byllesby suspension insulator he was selling on eBay.
• Ian Scales PhD (Canberra, Australia) provded scans of Pacific Net & Twine Co's General Catalog Nº5 showing their deck prism offerings.
• Wolf Seelentag was very helpful researching Marke Faust glass bricks (see this glassmessages thread).
• Chris Sistrunk donated pictures of vault lights in San Antonio, Texas, across the street from the Alamo.
• Joan Temminck, Glasfabriek Leerdam expert, shared information and photos about their Vera-Lux and Astoria-Blocs prismatic construction glass.
• Pavel Trtik contributed his pictures of Falconnier briques at spa Luhacovice in the Czech republic.
• Rich Wentzel provided a photocopy of the Armstrong CD 203.2 machine drawing.
• Tracy Willson provided pictures of her E. Chanteloup (Montréal vault lights) paperweight: top and side views.
• Molly Woodward donated a picture of an early round Hyatt Light (sadly sans glass) from her site, Vernacular Typography.
• N. R. Woodward allowed use of his Consolidated Design (CD) insulator numbering system.
• Jeff Wurstner provided high-resolution panoramic photos of a Luxfer prism tile installation in Omaha, Nebraska.
• John Yindra provided a photo of a New England Tel & Tel Co CD 102.4

Special Mention:

A special thanks to Dietrich Neumann for his Luxfer monograph, "The Century's Triumph in Lighting": The Luxfer Prism Companies and their Contribution to Early Modern Architecture, the main scholarly work on the subject. I learned more about Luxfer within ten minutes of receiving this issue than I had in the previous year of digging around on my own. This goldmine is slowly being digested and the facts published here, but credit goes to Neumann for the original research. If you are interested in Luxfer, and don't own a copy this JSAH issue, then you are not interested in Luxfer.

The following excellent organizations and people provided images, copying, scanning or research services for free, at nominal cost, or for trade, and were helpful and professional in all regards. They are warmly thanked.

• Davenport Public Library: researched the Jupiter Prism (of Davenport, IA), but found no trace. Strange.
• Missouri History Museum Library: Jason D Stratman (and others) researched the Condie-Neale glass company, providing references from 1909 through 1936 and photocopies of several.
• Mystic Seaport Museum: Philip Budlong (Associate Curator) donated photocopies of old catalogs showing deck prisms; Fred Calabretta (Associate Curator of Collections & Oral Historian) and Peggy Tate Smith (Rights & Reproductions and Sales Coordinator) organized an original photo shoot of the Charles W. Morgan and its deck prisms (photographer: Judy Beisler).
• New-York Historical Society: Joseph Ditta, Reference Librarian, copied the many fragile pages of the irreplaceable Tice & Jacobs Illustrated Descriptive Circular.
• Nyon Archives: Elisabeth Bourban-Mayor (and others) researched Gustave Falconnier (who was of that city) and provided scans of the man himself and his award certificate from the 1893 Colombia World's Exposition.
• Parks Canada provided photos of a Preston's Patent Illuminator from their 2015 dive on the Erebus.
• Putnam Museum and Science Center: Christine Chandler searched for information about the mysterious Jupiter Prism tiles but came up blank, alas.
• Rakow Research Library, Corning Museum of Glass: Ken Burns, Coordinator of Access Services, scanned the excellent Gaston Blanpain-Massonet catalog Briques en Verre the very next day after I requested it! Rakow had previously provided a scan of their Solar Prisms in Ornamental Designs by the Solar Prism Company.
• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center: Nan Card, Curator of Manuscripts, copied and mailed the excellent Brown Brothers one-sheet instantly.
• Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen donated their photo of Falconnier full- and half-size bricks from this auction.
• St. Louis Building Arts Foundation: Larry Giles traded a copy of a Bruner Granitoid catalog for a copy of American 3-Way Prism catalog 14-S.
• St. Louis Public Library: Mary Frechette and Jean Gosebrink both researched the Condie-Neale Glass Co., and Jean copied the 1914 catalogue she found for me.
• Seattle Municipal Archives: Anne Frantilla, Assistant City Archivist, provided high-resolution scans of historic vault light photos.
• United States Army Signal Corps Museum: Delores Oplinger searched the archives, finding and copying the Signal Corps Storage Catalogue.
• University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Projects: Mary Mark Ockerbloom donated a photo of Falconnier's exhibits at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
• Zuma Corporation (defunct): Wayne Brent (President and CEO) generously scanned the 1885 Hayward's catalogue microfiches gratis.

The following individuals provided paid services:

• Julia Bedriy: Photographs of illuminated covers and vault lights in New York City. Julia did a fine, thorough, and conscientious job for a very reasonable fee and is highly recommended.

The following organizations provided paid research services:

• Chicago Historical Society: American Luxfer and American Three Way Prism Co. research.
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania: American Three Way Prism Company research.
• Western Reserve Historical Society: Solar Prism Co. research.

The following organizations licensed images for use on this site:

• Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery: Lewis Hine Child Labor image #213 (Canton Glass Works 1908).