Men Working in Whitney Glass Works Shop

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The Whitney Glass Works Shop was located within the Whitney Glass Works factory on High Street, between Main Street and Academy Street. In the above photograph, the man with the pipe in his mouth is identified as Jacob Miller. The Whitney Brothers built homes and allowed their workers to rent them, making the Whitney Glass Works Plant a community for the workers and their families.

The Whitney Glass Works also hired many men and boys, and as the years went on, more people were hired. In 1870 approximately 400 people were employed. By 1896 over 1,000 employees worked for the Whitney Brothers. 

The workers for the Whitney Glass Works were generally paid higher than the average manufacturing job at that time. The average salary for someone working in a manufacturing plant was $44 a month, and workers at the Whitney Plant were making between $70-$110 a month.

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