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Title
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Developing New Products
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Description
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The W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company is developing new products such as the sportsmen's target known as the "Dickey Bird" and fruit can cement [a sealing product] in granulated form rather than the standard stick form.
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Date
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1900-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Huge Job in Ceramics
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Description
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Photo and article about the "[h]eroic masks of comedy and tragedy, said to be the largest ceramics [sic] pieces ever fired in this country" completed for placement in "the University of Kansas City Playhouse." Designed and built by "Thomas R. Thomas [or Thomas Thomas], University of Kansas City art instructor, and Walter C. Millson [or Walter Millson], vice-president of the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh [sic], Kans., in whose kilns the gigantic pieces were fired." Description of operations and history of the clay products company founded by Walter Dickey in 1885 (headquartered in Pittsburg, Kansas, "130 miles from Kansas City, Mo."), a late Kansas City citizen donating his house "as the first university building" facing the site of the mask display.
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Date
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1951-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
