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• Aberthaw Construction Co., Boston, Massachusetts [?-1904-?]
• American 3-Way Prism Company, La Porte, Indiana [?-1926]
• American 3-Way Luxfer Prism Company [1926-?]
• American Crystal Light Company, Boston [?-1886-?]
  • Assignee of Schoenberg's Patent No. 354,440.
• American Luxfer Prism Company, see Luxfer Prism Company
• American Plate Glass Co., Williamsburgh, Long Island
  • "AMERICAN PLATE GLASS COMPANY -- (Factory Williamsburgh, L. I.) are now prepared to execute orders for rough Plate Glass, suitable for floors, skylights, vault, and deck lights. Prompt attention will be given to orders left at the office, 442 Broadway, or their agent, J. R. PLATT, 79 Murray st." [Scientific American, August 18, 1855, page 391; Cornell]
  • "AMERICAN PLATE GLASS CO. Having erected extensive works in East Brooklyn, (foot of North Sixth st.) are now prepared to execute promptly all orders forwarded to them, for Rough Plate Glass, for Sky Lights, Floor Lights, Pavements, Deck Lights for vessels, &c. ... All orders left at the office the Company will receive prompt attention. Office 420 Broadway. Rough Plate Glass in the Sheet at the factory, 1-4 in. 35c.; 3-8 in. 35c.; 1-2 in. 40c.; 5-8 in. 60c; 3-4 in. 75c.; 7-8 in. 80.; 1 in. 85c.; 1 1-4 in. $1.25. Terms cash in 30 days." [Scientific American, August 18, 1855, page 287; Cornell]
• Berger Manufacturing Company, Canton, Ohio [1886-Present]
  • Raydiant
• Brooklyn Vault Light Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. [?-1903-1917-?]
• Burnet, Jackson & Co.
  • "In the gaslight- and pre-gaslight era, skylights were built into sidewalks to allow as much sunlight as possible to filter into basement areas. This one, on Grand Street, was built by the Burnet Jackson Company (Excelsior Iron Works), which, if you look at the inscription at right, was located both at Centre and Howard Streets and also at 14th Street and the East River." forgotten NY street scenes (manhole & coal chute covers
• T. H. Brooks & Co., Cleveland, Ohio [?-1904-?]
  • "Floor and Sidewalk Lights of Every Description" (The Engineering Record, Volume 49, Number 16; April 16, 1904)
• Brown Brothers Mfg. Co., Chicago, Illinois [1860-1882-?]
• P. M. Bruner Granitoid Co., 532 Frisco Building, St. Louis, Mo. [?-1911-?]
• C. B. S. Co. Inc., Los Angeles
• Cadillac Glass Company, Chicago, Illinois [?-1938-?]
• Canton Glass Company, Canton, Ohio [1883-1890], Marion, Indiana [1890-1939-?]
• Champion Iron Company, Kenton, Ohio [1876-1910-?]
• Cleveland Window Glass Co.
  • 232 to 240 Champlain and 67 to 71 Michigan; Telephones: Main 473 and 1579 [1899-1900 Cleveland City Directory]
  • [1900-01 CDD listing, same addresses and phones]
  • 232 to 240 (old Champlain and 67 to 71 (old Michigan; Both Phones [1905-06 CDD]
• Columbia Ornamental Iron Company, Canton, Ohio [1890-1937-?]
• Condie-Neale Glass Co., St. Louis, Missouri
  • Neptune's Daughter, ceiling in the Men's Bath Hall, Fordyce Bathhouse, Hot Springs, Arkansas.
• Cooperative Flint Glass Co., Limited, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania [1869-1937].
• Cornell's Iron Works, New York [?-1856-1897-?]
• Cress & Co., Inc. (REDIMADE)
• Dauchy & Company, 125 & 127 Indiana Street ("near Wells"), Chicago [1874-?]
• Daylight Prism Co.
  • "Daylight Prism Co. v. Marcus Prism Co.", Federal Reporter 110 (1901): 980-85.
• Empire Vault Light Co., New York
  • Owner: Meyer Goldberg (wife Gertrude) [1933]
  • Gallery
• Excelsior Iron Works (Burnet Jackson Co.), 14th St. East River & Centre & Howard St., New York
  • Geo. R. Jackson's Sons
  • Designs Underfoot (Diana Stuart):
    • "By 1850 Jackson's Excelsior foundry was listed at Centre St. under hardware"
    • "An 1868 hand-colored map shows Excelsior Iron Works spanning E. 13 and 14 Sts. between Aves. C and D"
    • "A beautiful 1887 hand-colored illustration of the foundry on a map shows it covering the entire city block"
  • General John McArthur: "...immigrated to the United States in 1849. McArthur worked in Chicago as a boilermaker, then began the Excelsior Iron Works with his brother-in-law. In 1861, he was the sole owner of the company, and was active in the state militia's Highland Guard. ... He left the military in August of 1865, and returned to his iron business. It did poorly..." Union Generals
• J. C. French & Sons, New York
• Howell, 353 Adams St., New York
  • Gallery
• Hyatt Brothers, New York ["Hyatt Lights"]
  • Thaddeus Hyatt & Co.
  • Thaddeus Hyatt Improved Illuminating Tile Company (see Patent No. 365,306).
  • "Hyatt Theodore, 6 Wooster, see adv"
  • 45 Greene St.
  • "patent vaults and patent lights, sky lights, floor lights, shop lights, &c., 4th story"
  • "In 1845 Thaddeus Hyatt patented a unique lighting system that neatly complemented Bogardus's creation. Thick glass discs set within iron grilles were placed in the sidewalk in front of a warehouse letting natural light into the basement and avoiding the need for gas lighting and its attendant fumes."
  • Gallery
• P. H. Jackson & Co., 225-229 First St., San Francisco, California
  • Brass ID plate found on dozens of steel sidewalk plates in Sacramento.
  • Patents 587210, 699468, and 725846.
• Jacobs Co. (becomming Tice & Jacobs?)
  • 562 W. 34 St. N.Y.
  • Jacobs & Son @ 510 Pearl Street in 1903
• Jeannette Glass Company, Jeannette, Pennsylvania [1888 - 1983]
• H. Chas. Judge Mfg. Co. (Searchlight Prisms)
• Luminous Prism Co., Cleveland, Ohio
• Luxfer Prism Company, Chicago, Illinois [1897-1926]
• Marcus Prism Co.
  • "Daylight Prism Co. v. Marcus Prism Co.", Federal Reporter 110 (1901): 980-85.
• Jacob Mark, New York [?-1868-1882-?]
• Minwax Vault Light Cement
  • "All expansion joints in the terrace floor between the stylobates and the balustrade walls were to be cleaned to the depth of the upper slab and blown out with compressed air. When clean, they were to be primed with Minwax Asphalt Primer and allowed to dry. Minwax Vault Light Cement would be poured into the joints and made flush with then top of the slab. Before this hardened, a coat of clean white sand was to be sprinkled on the surface of the joints to prevent adhesion of the asphalt compound to pedestrian traffic."
    George Rogers Clark NHP, Historic Structures Report, The 1943-44 Rehabilitation Program at the Memorial
• Morlite Company, Chicago
• National Glass Works, Union & 22nd Streets, Bellaire, Ohio [1869-1984]
• National Vault Light Co., 537 Jackson Avenue, (Bronx) New York, N.Y. [?-1932-?]
• New York Prism Company, 473 West Broadway, New York City, N.Y. [1906]
  • Sweet's 1906 listing (one page)
• Leo Popper & Sons, No. 143-147 Franklin St., New York [1880-1971]
• Pressed Prism Glass Co., Morgantown, West Virginia [1903-?]
  • Mfg prism tiles for Luxfer and their own prismatic products
• Prismatic Glass Co. , New Hampshire [owned Pennycuick's 1882 patent from 1887-89]
• Radiating Light Co., Chicago, [Oct 1896-1897 becoming Luxfer]
  • Founded on James G. Pennycuick's 1882 patent [#?]
  • John Meiggs Ewen, President, Henry M. Bacon, Secretary, Thomas W. Horn, and James G. Pennycuick founders.
  • Dec 1896 changed names to Semi-Prism Glass Company
  • Apr 1897 changed names to Luxfer (Latin lux for light and ferre meaning to carry)
• Richards & Kelly Mfg. Co., 389 & 391 Twenty-Third St. Chicago
• Rockwell's Patent Lights, "Broadway, near John St., New York" [?-1835-?]
• Rodefer Glass Company, see National Glass Works
• Rodefer-Gleason Glass Company, see National Glass Works
• Semi-Prism Glass Co., see Luxfer Glass Company
• Smith & Lov??? 5? DEVONSHIRE ST. (PAT NOV 12, 1845) [Hyatt] [illegible] [Coal cover?]
• Solar Prism Company, Cleveland, Ohio
• Standard Glass Co., Cleveland, Ohio
  • "Mnfrs. of Solar Prism Glass, 222 Champlain av. Tel. Main 2768; James G. Brown, mngr." [1899-1900 CDD]
• Tice & Jacobs, New York, New York
• Tucker & Vinton Corporation, New York, New York [?-1904-1906-?]
  • Vault Lights sub-contractor for 1904 New York Subway (Interborough Rapid Transit, page 152, see bibliography)
  • Sweet's 1906 listing (one page)
• United States Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania [1891-1908-?]
• United States Prismatic Light Company, Baltimore, Maryland [?-1886-?]
  • See U.S. patent No. 342,030
  • Formed by Louis Nelke?