Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. brochure – May 1947

Description

This is a 12-panel brochure. When folded, the brochure measures approximately 2.25 x 5.5 inches. When completely unfolded it measures approximately 6.75 x 10.75 inches.
The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers. The company was headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania, when four companies merged: Hazel Glass and Metals Company (started in 1887); Atlas Glass Company (started 1896); Wheeling Metal Plant; and Republic Glass Company.
By the 1900s, Hazel-Atlas was a large glass maker, with 15 manufacturing plants. Hazel-Atlas made large quantities of "Depression" pressed glassware in a wide variety of patterns in the 1920s-1940s, along with many white milkglass "inserts" used in zinc fruit-jar lids, many types of milkglass cold-cream jars and salve containers, and a large variety of bottles and jars for the commercial packaging industry. "Atlas" was the brand of the company's most popular line of fruit jars for home canning.
Hazel-Atlas – then the third-largest producer of glass containers in the United States, with almost 10% of the market – became a subsidiary of the Continental Can Company in 1957. The acquisition was challenged under the Clayton Antitrust Act in a case that was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Continental Can Co. It continued to make containers, glassware, and tableware into the 1960s. In 1964, 10 of the 12 H-A plants in operation were sold to Brockway Glass Company, and it is unclear whether the remaining two plants used the H-A trademark after that year.