Labor Day History: The Tragic Significance of Cheap Bottles ~ Antique Bottle History & Vintage Labor Day Art

Great Antiques Bottles Info on Collectors Weekly

Collector's Weekly, the informative reference and ebay listings-tracker site has a super BOTTLES section, with articles and resource links, and best of all, it's a one-stop place to see the MOST WATCHED bottles on ebay, so you don't miss any. They also give you the recent CLOSED prices. All on one page, w/thumbnail pix, and links to the items. It will save you hours of ebay surfing. And it's FREE! Here's the link CW BOTTLES Overview . It's a great site. Be sure to bookmark it, and check out all of their bottle collecting categories - milks, jars, bitters, and so many more.

Bottle Boys: 1909

[Photo from http://www.shorpy.com/node/12783]

[Photo source: http://libraryexhibits.utad.utoledo.edu/WTX/artgall_pics.html]

"The automated glass bottle making machine is said to have done more for education than child labor laws."

Above quotes are from a study of the child labor in the Pittsburgh glass houses.

Lest we forget, little girls labored too.

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"WITHOUT LABOR NOTHING PROSPERS." --SOPHOCLES

Once upon a time we didn't even have 8-hour workdays, or weekends, let alone 3-day weekends: "The eight-hour day movement forms part of the early history for the celebration of Labour Day, and May Day in many nations and cultures."