BGuthrie Photos: WV -- Wheeling -- Oglebay Park -- Glass Museum

WV -- Wheeling -- Oglebay Park -- Glass Museum:

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1. OGLEGL_070813_023.JPG: Sweeney Punch Bowl
2. OGLEGL_070813_038.JPG: Sweeney Punch Bowl: This is the original Sweeney Punch Bowl. For 74 years, this bowl sat on the grave of Michael Sweeney who, along with his brother Thomas, made it in 1844. The bowl, or vase as the Sweeneys called it, was intended to show the abilities of the makers and the quality of Wheeling glass. At 4'10" tall and weighing 225 pounds, this remains one of the largest pieces of cut lead crystal ever made. The Sweeney bowl was encased in Michael Sweeney's monument after his death in 1875. Michael and his brother, Thomas, were partners when the punch bowl was made, but they later separated because Thomas refused Michael a loan. The story goes that they never spoke to each other again. When Thomas visited his estranged brother's grave and saw the bowl, accompanied by an inscription claiming that Michael alone had manufactured it, he was beyond speech.
3. OGLEGL_070813_085.JPG: The Cleveland Vase
4. OGLEGL_070813_088.JPG: The Cleveland Vase: If you look closely and read the words carefully hand-painted on this vase, you will find that it was actually an invitation issued to President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland to visit Wheeling. It was signed by members of the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce, including Charles Brockunier, and dated August 1877. Unfortunately, neither the beauty of the vase nor the good will of the chamber encouraged the President to take a trip to Wheeling that summer. On August 31, 1887, a local newspaper reported that he could not make the visit.
5. OGLEGL_070813_254.JPG: The Federal government stopped them from producing these types of plates, with U.S. coin likenesses on them, saying that it amounted to counterfeiting.
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Description of Subject Matter: Situated adjacent to the Mansion, the Oglebay Institute Glass Museum is a treasure house of sparkle and glitter. Featuring over 3000 examples of Wheeling Glass made from 1829-1939, the glass museum displays cut lead crystal, Victorian art glass, Peachblow, pattern and depression and Northwood's carnival glass and many other glass examples showcasing Ohio Valley history.

Every visitor to the Mountain State will enjoy viewing the largest piece of cut lead crystal ever made, The Sweeney Punch Bowl. Five feet tall and weighing 225 pounds, this crystal treasure is world famous - a remarkable masterpiece of Victorian glass.

The above was from the official site at http://www.oionline.com/museums/museums.htm
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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