Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York

Summary

Buildings of Corning Glass Works, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses, viewed from a distance. The Chemung River is in the foreground as it flows by the manufacturing plant.

Subject

• Corning Glass Works
• Corning Incorporated

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• The image is included in Scrapbook II of photographs taken by Ruel P. Tolman, artist, curator and later Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• For other images of Corning Glass Works, see Neg. #s SIA2011-0492 through SIA2011-0509 and SIA2011-0515 through SIA2011-0523.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder: 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N."

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1930

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Manufacturing industries
• Landscapes
• Plant layout
• Rivers
• Factories
• Manufacturing

Place

• Corning (N.Y.)
• United States
• Chemung River (N.Y. and Pa.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Landscape
• Exterior

ID Number

SIA2011-0492

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 4.25w x 2.5h; Type of Image: Exterior; Landscape; Medium: Photographic print

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