Close Inspection

ID: 2498 ~ Source: Thomas E. Turner Sr. Papers, Box 24, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
This file appears in: Owens-Illinois
Close Inspection

Employee Tom Davis examines a glass coffee jar for imperfections. The jar was made on one of twelve bottle machines at the Owens-Illinois plant.

This file appears in: Owens-Illinois

By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…