One of my favorite things is to collect postcards & aerial views are something that I search for, especially of pottery factories. Here is an aerial view of the Tropico Pottery Works in Glendale, California, 1924 from the USC Digital Archive. Another aerial view is of the Gladding McBean and Company in May 1928. USC archive also has views of the jigger room at Pacific Clay Products in 1934.

I didn’t realize that Pewabic created tiles that have been installed in churches, but it would make sense. National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Immaculate Conception, Old South End, Toledo, Ohio show a couple examples of their work.

An interesting blog that I ran across shows the pottery headstones in the Hill Country of northeast Mississippi. I’m not sure how far north pottery headstones could be found due to freezing. Some of the headstones appear to be stoneware and others look more like redware. Still amazing that they’ve lasted over 100 years to the elements and man. Sort of brings the concept of a Potter’s Field full circle.

Some pictures and a bit of history about Blue Mountain Pottery.

The West Baden Spring Hotel has a Rookwood fireplace surround in this recently restored Hotel.

Found a great website that is very extensive with tons of info. The USDA’s website is quite extensive, but you need to have a basic idea of what you’re looking for. I found the site at a Wisconsin Wildflower site.

The first link after reading about the death of Otto Natzler was about an exhibit held at UW-LaCrosse in 1993. Otto created the glazes for his wife’s pottery. The exhibit came about due to a discovery of the pottery after a remodeling project. An obituary gives a nice history of his & his wife’s work.