Glassboro

by Robert W. Sands Jr.

Overview

Glassboro is the first illustrated history of the community whose name pays tribute to the industry that made it what it is today. Filled with treasured memories, the book preserves a remarkable collection of vintage photographs that capture historic Glassboro in the past two centuries as a booming southern New Jersey community at the height of its glass industry. The pages are filled with never-before-published images of the Whitney Glass Works, the Warrick-Stanger Glass Works, the Glassboro Auditorium, the Palace Theatre, and other landmarks from long ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439616000
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/08/2004
Series:	Images of America Series
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	55 MB
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About the Author

Author Robert W. Sands Jr. has been fascinated with the town�s history since his early years growing up in Glassboro. He is the museum coordinator and a life member of the Gloucester County Historical Society. He is also a life member of the Heritage Glass Museum in Glassboro, and he assisted in the restoration of the highly decorated USS New Jersey. In Glassboro, his latest book, he pays tribute to the heritage of the town that developed around the early �glassworks in the woods.�