Cunningham & Co. Limited
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Description
1886-1902
Cunningham & Co. Ltd. was just one iteration of the glassworks headed by the Cunningham family in Pittsburgh in the second half of the 19th-century. The family got its start with the Pittsburg City Glass Works (ad below) around 1845; this company folded in 1849, giving way to Cunningham & Co. George Duncan joined brothers David and WIlson Cunningham in this expansion of the company, which lasted until 1865. The company was yet again renamed, this time: Cunninghams & Ihmsen, producing soda bottles, fruit jars, wine bottles, druggists’ ware, and demijohns. These products are listed in the 1877 ad below. By 1878 their most popular products were window glass, whiskey flasks, and cylinder whiskey bottles; in this same year, Ihmsen retired, leaving only Cunningham & Co. Around this time, Dominick O. Cunningham started his own company, which would eventually take over the original company. For six years the company was a limited partnership, calling itself Cunninghams & Co Ltd. (1886 to about 1902). It is unclear why the company ended its limited partnership in 1902, and by 1907, the D.O. Cunningham Glass Company had absorbed it.
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Cunningham & Co. Ltd. was just one iteration of the glassworks headed by the Cunningham family in Pittsburgh in the second half of the 19th-century. The family got its start with the Pittsburg City Glass Works (ad below) around 1845; this company folded in 1849, giving way to Cunningham & Co. George Duncan joined brothers David and WIlson Cunningham in this expansion of the company, which lasted until 1865. The company was yet again renamed, this time: Cunninghams & Ihmsen, producing soda bottles, fruit jars, wine bottles, druggists’ ware, and demijohns. These products are listed in the 1877 ad below. By 1878 their most popular products were window glass, whiskey flasks, and cylinder whiskey bottles; in this same year, Ihmsen retired, leaving only Cunningham & Co. Around this time, Dominick O. Cunningham started his own company, which would eventually take over the original company. For six years the company was a limited partnership, calling itself Cunninghams & Co Ltd. (1886 to about 1902). It is unclear why the company ended its limited partnership in 1902, and by 1907, the D.O. Cunningham Glass Company had absorbed it.
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Public Domain
Source
Hawkins, Jay W. 2009. Glasshouses and Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region: 1795-1910. iUniverse.