First safety plate glass windshield produced for civilian automobiles, Ohio, United States, 1945

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Photograph. Two female workers, standing behind a B-29 nose assembly, displaying safety plate glass windshield for civilian automobiles. "8/28/45--First windshield for civilian car produced by U.S. company.--Two employees of the Libbey-Ford-Owens Glass Company of the midwestern U.S. state of Ohio display the first safety plate glass windshield for civilian automobile produced by the company together with the 5000th B-29 Superfortress nose assembly turned out. The products were completed simultaneously on the day Japan surrendered to the Allies. The company announced it could "speed the shift to civilian goods production just as rapidly as customer-demand justifies."’Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43479-PME. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority." Ohio, United States. 28 August 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.477
Date: 
08/28/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Windshields--Ohio
Glass industry--Ohio
Defense industry--Ohio
Women--Ohio
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Ohio
Latitude: 
40.000
Longitude: 
-80.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Windshields--Ohio
Glass industry--Ohio
Defense industry--Ohio
Women--Ohio