TheHazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered inWheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 inWashington, Pennsylvania,[1] as the merger of four companies:
By the 1900s, Hazel-Atlas was a large glass maker, with 15 plants, including ones inAda, Oklahoma;Clarksburg, West Virginia;Montgomery, Alabama;Oakland, California;Pomona, California andZanesville, Ohio.[1] Hazel-Atlas made large quantities of "Depression" pressed glassware in a wide variety of patterns in the 1920s–1940s, along with many white milkglass "inserts" used in zinc fruit-jar lids, many types of milkglass cold-cream jars and salve containers, and a large variety of bottles and jars for the commercial packaging industry. "Atlas" was the brand of the company's most popular line of fruit jars for home canning.
Hazel-Atlas—then the third largest producer of glass containers in the United States, with almost ten percent of the market[2]—became a subsidiary of theContinental Can Company in 1957. The acquisition was challenged under theClayton Antitrust Act in a case that was eventually decided by theU.S. Supreme Court inUnited States v. Continental Can Co.. It continued to make containers,glassware, andtableware into the 1960s. In 1964, 10 of the 12 H-A plants in operation were sold toBrockway Glass Company, and it is unclear whether the remaining two plants used the H-A trademark after that year.
Hazel-Atlas produced dozens of different patterns, with unique names. The Hazel-Atlas mark, usually placed on the back of the product, is an "A" nestled underneath an "H". The mark was reportedly first used in 1923, according to trademark office records quoted by Peterson (400 Trademarks on Glass).
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