Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company 1922-1937

Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company 1922-1937

Author: Michael David Smith · Year: 1989 · PDF: assets/pdfs/1989-smith-texas-glass-illustrated-history.pdf

TEXAS GLASS focuses on one important South Texas plant: the Three Rivers Glass Company during its roughly 1922–1937 run, with photographs and narrative that help tie embossed marks and bottle forms to a specific factory context. That matters directly for collectors and historians working Three Rivers-marked coffee and beverage bottles from the era.

Relevance to H&H

Foundational reference for the H&H Crystalvac glass-supplier story. Three Rivers Glass Company was H&H’s earliest Crystalvac jar supplier (1932–1936/37) — the initial 250,000-jar order is documented in the June 1932 launch press. Smith 1989 is the primary monograph on the Three Rivers plant; the KB cites it across 14 pages including Three Rivers Glass Company, Three Rivers Glass Bottles, Crystalvac, and Charles R. Tips.

Complementary academic sources now also in the KB:

• Lockhart c.2010s — covers the Bastrop, LA satellite plant Smith doesn’t
• Hinson 1998 — short paper, third independent source

Three independent sources now triangulate any Three Rivers-marked bottle attribution claim.

See also

• Public-facing resource page — same content, projected to the Jekyll site