Toledo museum of art. The purpose really is to showcase the glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection. It is actually almost a third of the overall collection here in toledo. It is also one of the larger collections of glass in the United States. And the city has a wonderful history of glass both in terms of the industrial contribution in toledo and in terms of what the museum presents. Ms. Mcmaster Edward Drummond libbey was our founder. And Edward Drummond libbey was the proprietor of the Libbey Glass Company. And it was through his ties at the Libbey Glass Company he made his fortune. Because he and his wife had no children, he left that fortune to the museum. He also gave us a large both glass collection and paintings collection. Edward drummond libbey, he was born in 1854. The new england Glass Company, which was the precursor to the Libbey Glass Company, started in 1818. Edward drummond libbeys father became the agent for the new england Glass Comp
The book festival will continue in a half an hour the final program of the day joined by other contributors to her book to discuss their relationships with their mothers while we wait we will show you their recent visit to toledo ohio. Known as the glass capital of the world. Up next we learn about edward libby and his role to turn toledo into the glass city. The city of toledo has been called the glass capital of the world referring to the glass city because of the influence of the Major International corporations producing some aspect of glass and that has been the case since 1888 when the first Glass Factory was brought to toledo in 1868 scott who owned much of what is downtown toledo who was a Real Estate Broker so the article was titled the future great city of the world. So at that time it was founded in 1837 dayton ohio with 18 oh three so there was a 30 year period summit was arrested development so Justice Scott bought real estate when it was pretty cheap and decided he would
Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful history here. Over the years people of toledo have built things, known as the glass city because the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston to toledo in 1800s drawn by natural gas and also sand, edwin drummer baby brought his new England Glass Company to toledo and opened a plants on at street north toledo and its on the exact same site today p or that was 1988 and Owens Corning here downtown toledo a fortune 500 company invented
Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
Have built this economy of glass here in toledo. So we are standing in the glass pavilion, which is part of the Toledo Museum of art. The purpose really is to showcase the glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection. It is actually almost a third of the overall collection here in toledo. It is also one of the larger collections of glass in the united states. And the city has a wonderful history of glass both in terms of the industrial contribution in toledo and in terms of what the museum presents. Ms. Mcmaster Edward Drummond libbey was our founder. And Edward Drummond libbey was the proprietor of the Libbey Glass Company. And it was through his ties at the Libbey Glass Company he made his fortune. Because he and his wife had no children, he left that fortune to the museum. He also gave us a large both glass collection and paintings collection. Edward drummond libbey, he was born in 1854. The new england Glass Company, which was the precursor to the Libbe