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  • November 22, 2022
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Dazzling, Beautiful, Lovely, and Bold: Popular Tips for Using Glassware in the 1920s and 30s

“Almost everything will look three times as delicious served on glass. You’ll think of the magic table in the fairy tale when you see the miraculous change the swift dazzle of glass makes in your own table.” The Little Book … Read more →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library
  • August 23, 2022
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Spontaneous Combustion: Hot Glass Performance and the B Team

This week’s blog post is written by Madelynn Cullings, a current Ph.D. candidate at Binghamton University, who spent this past summer working as the Public History Intern at the Rakow Research Library at The Corning Museum of Glass. Madelynn’s work … Read more →

  • Posted in: Artists, Glassmaking techniques/process, Rakow Library, Research
  • July 26, 2022
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Looking back to ’72: The Junior Curators Honor the 50th Anniversary of the 1972 Flood 

Even before I moved to Corning, I had heard about the 1972 flood. A few weeks before I moved across the country to take a position at the Museum, I spent my last day as a volunteer docent at the … Read more →

  • Posted in: Exhibitions, From the Collections, Rakow Library
  • June 28, 2022
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Safeguarding the Collections: Virginia Wright, a memorial

Virginia Wright (1932 – 2022) Virginia (Jinny) Wright joined the Rakow Library staff in 1969 and during her 30+ years of service was a tireless advocate for library collections, facilities, staff, and services. She was one of the first Museum … Read more →

  • Posted in: News & Events, Rakow Library, Staff
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