Watermelon glass — as this pink and green stemware from the Great Depression is known — is as beautiful as it is difficult to find. Photo by Roger Werth / The Daily News.

The term “uranium glass” generally describes glass with uranium oxide, which glows under a black light. Other terms — Vaseline glass and Depression glass, for example — came later and ...

Depression glass, as it came to be known, was produced in a wide range of bright colors—pink, pale blue, green, amber, and less common colors like canary, ultramarine, jadeite, delphite (opaque ...

“If the item is glass, and fluoresces neon green under a black light, it contains uranium dioxide 100 percent of the time.” Look deeper. Not all items are bright green; other colors include ...

A 1976 New York Times’ piece on Depression glass talks about how a 20-piece dinner set was sold for as little as $1.99, at time when 12.8 million Americans were out of jobs.