300
North West Street
Glass bottle and jar works that operated in west-end Alexandria from the 1890s until the Depression, employing hundreds of workers including children before Virginia’s child-labor reforms.
- 1894approx
- Industrial
- Demolished demolished 1932
Place narrative
The Old Dominion Glass Company operated a factory along the west end of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad corridor from about 1894 until the early 1930s. The plant produced bottles and canning jars for the mid-Atlantic market and at its peak employed several hundred workers [1] Alexandria Library Special Collections Manuscript .
Period photographs by Lewis Hine, taken for the National Child Labor Committee during his 1911 survey of Virginia glass factories, document the employment of boys as young as ten at the Alexandria plant [2] LOC Prints & Photographs Photograph . Hine’s photographs and notes contributed to the passage of Virginia’s child-labor law in 1914.
The glass works closed during the Great Depression and the buildings were demolished in the early 1930s. Nothing of the factory survives above ground; the site has been built over several times since.
Timeline
3 chronological entries across 2 eras.
Opening of the glass works [1] Source Alexandria Library Special Collections
The building
- Industrial
Gallery
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Sources
- 1.
Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Barrett Branch, Alexandria, Virginia.
Manuscript
- 2.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Washington: Library of Congress).
Photograph
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