Pepsi-cola / deco / basket-weave / soda bottle design pattern

[SODAPOPBOB]

Now I'm looking for a picture of James S. Steelman ( and/or any other Steelman family member associated with the Millville glass industry ). I have only skimmed the surface on the following picture gallery and hoping to find something of interest. Maybe one of the Steelman's is among the numerous pictures. If you look through them, remember that James S. Steelman would have been about 44 years old in 1935 and a glass factory Draftsman at the time ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=millville+new+jersey+glass&fulltext=Search&uselang=en

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Example ...

This picture is described as a mold shop Machinist for the Whitall Tatum Company in 1937

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millville,_New_Jersey_-_Glass_bottles._Mould_shop_Whitall_Tatum_Co._This_skilled_machinist_is_running_a_machine_which..._-_NARA_-_518655.jpg

 

[epackage]

Last known picture...[]

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Jim/epackage ~

Thanks

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Here's what is described as a 1937 Whitall Tatum mold "Letterer"

I wonder if a Draftsman was also a Letterer?

I also wonder if the guy pictured is 45 years old?

Bob

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millville,_New_Jersey_-_Glass_bottles._The_letterer_in_the_Whitall_Tatum_mould_shop._This_man_is_chiseling_out_by..._-_NARA_-_518656.jpg

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/nj2/chap5.htm

Whitall Tatum represented an impressive industrial scale in its nineteenth-century heyday. In 1899 it counted 460 employees, including 139 blowers, at Glasstown or the Upper Works; and 1,052 persons including 211 blowers, thirty-six lamp-workers, and 708 packers, at Schetterville/the Lower works. Besides blowers, there were packers, office workers, letterers and engravers, cutters, decorators, and apprentices who looked to become journeymen blowers.

 

[jblaylock]

Resurrection:

I'm working on an article for the Pepsi Cola Collector's Club about this bottle.

So, with Bob's research and what I have read, there are 3 people involved here

James Steelman: Designed the Bottle
James Gordon Carr: Also given credit for the bottle design, but actually designed the Gull-Wing Cooler
Donal McLaughlin: Credited with JGC with the bottle. He was a graphic designer who designed the United Nations emblem.

So, I'm trying to piece this together. As SPB's research shows, James Steelman for sure is the designer of the bottle as the patent proves this.

So, what did the other 2 men do? Did they help with the bottle? Perhaps the logo for the bottle?

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

This is the text associated with the Cooler ...

Patented Aug. 20, 1940 D 122,079

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DESIGN FOR A COOLER CABINET James Gordon Carr, New York, N. Y., assignor to Pepsi Cola Company, Long Island City, N. Y., a. Corporation of Delaware Application April 26, 1940, Serial No 91,976

 

[jblaylock]

I emailed Bob Stoddard, who literally wrote the book on Pepsi History.

He said, "According to Walter Mack's book No Time Lost, Pepsi hired Tiffany to design a new bottle. Carr worked for Tiffany."


Bob also pointed out that at some point that Patent should have been assigned to Pepsi, SPB, did you see that had been done on your research?

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Josh

I'm a little confused. The only Pepsi Cola bottle I'm aware of that was designed by Tiffany was their 100th Anniversary bottle produced in 1998. I'm not aware of another Tiffany Pepsi Cola bottle, nor of any other Pepsi Cola/Tiffany connection whatsoever. ???

Scroll to Page 9 ... (pdf)

http://www.dewittclintonalumni.com/files/DWCNotableAlumniJanuary2016.pdf

... where it says ...

Walter Mack Jr ’13 was president of the Pepsi-Cola Company from 1939 to 1950. In 1940, he had the unprecedented idea of putting African Americans in Pepsi ads. In the same year, he introduced the standardized embossed 12-oz. bottle, which debuted with the "Pepsi-Cola" label blown and baked into the glass. He is also credited with being the first to put soda in cans and the first to use a jingle as advertisement on national radio.

Antique-Bottles.net Forum Link - 1998 Pepsi Cola 100th Anniversary Bottle - Made by Tiffany

https://www.antique-bottles.net/showthread.php?669450-Tiffany-and-Co-Pepsi-Cola-Bottle

 

[SODAPOPBOB]

Josh

If you can find a complete Page 558 from this Volume 19, 1940 issue of the Glass Packer magazine, it should contain everything you need to know about James Gordon Carr's connection with the design of the 1940 Pepsi Cola bottle. I'm using the search box within the link to see if I can find any more information and will let you know if I find anything of interest ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=T...r+pepsi+cola&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Carr+