The Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was a large producer of machine-molded glass containers headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded in 1902 in Washington, Pennsylvania,[1] as the merger of four companies: Hazel Glass and Metals Company (started in 1887), Atlas Glass Company (started 1896), Wheeling Metal Plant and Republic Glass Company. By the 1900s, Hazel-Atlas was a large glass maker, with 15 plants, including ones in Ada, Oklahoma; Clarksburg, West Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Oakland, California; Pomona, California and Zanesville, Ohio.[1] Hazel-Atlas made large quantities of "Depression" pressed glassware in a wide variety of patterns in the 1920s1940s, 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.
