Can you be haunted by a building? Glass scholar Paul Hollister (1918-2004) certainly thought so and later described his own haunting in a lecture. At age 11, he visited the Crystal Palace, site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, located … Read more →
Every archive has mysteries waiting to be discovered and solved. Recently at the Rakow Research Library, we discovered some unusual items in one of our core collections: The Frederick Carder Papers. Frederick Carder (1863-1963) was a pioneering English glassmaker who … Read more →
What’s the most popular collection in your archives? How old is the oldest object in your collection? Ask our archivists anything! The Corning Museum of Glass is joining archives, libraries, and museums around the world as a participant in #AskAnArchivist day … Read more →
In its narrowest definition, a sketchbook is simply “a book filled with paper that is used for drawing” (Merriam-Webster). But if you look closely, sketchbooks are so much more than just pages with markings. They can also help provide an … Read more →