New Albany Glass Blowers

ID: 877 ~ Source: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Archives. ~ Date: 1888

This file appears in: The Economic Panic of 1873 and Labor Relations in New Albany

New Albany glass blowers pose with tools in hand in a photo taken in 1888.
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Archive.

This file appears in: The Economic Panic of 1873 and Labor Relations in New Albany

The Economic Panic of 1873 and Labor Relations in New Albany

By John Slack, Mary K. Marlatt, Benjamin Gies & Ellis Cassity

By the early 1870s, New Albany became a bustling river town with extensive commercial activity and a large number of industrial facilities. Nationwide economic trends disrupted New Albany’s economic prosperity. The Great Panic of 1873 swept across…