Mystery. Scandal. Fraud. Like any other cultural institution, the collections within the Rakow Research Library are not immune from tales of secrets long-buried – unsurprising, really, for a library that includes nearly 200 archival collections. For years, I’d heard tell … Read more →
This post is written by Thatcher project digitization assistant Christina Baker. Read more about the Thatcher project and collection in previous posts. While cataloging the Thatcher Glass collection, I’ve run across several interesting items. Today I found a mysterious envelope … Read more →
This post comes from Joseph Schill, the archives intern at the Rakow Research Library. In 1958, photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee came to Corning, N.Y., to photograph Steuben glass workers in action. Larrabee was a gifted artist who is best known … Read more →
Colleen McFarland Rademaker joined The Corning Museum of Glass as our new associate librarian for special collections at the Rakow Research Library at the end of August. On October 4, she’ll be joining archivists around the world in answering questions … Read more →