Glass Objects, Corning Glass Company

Summary

Decorative glass objects shown in a display case at the Corning Glass Company (probably the Corning Museum of Glass.) Corning Glass Company manufactures glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses, at Corning, New York.

Subject

• Corning Glass Works
• Corning Incorporated
• Corning Museum of Glass

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. 1935

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Manufacturing industries
• Decoration and ornament
• Glass
• Exhibit cases
• Vases
• Decorative arts

Place

Corning (N.Y.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Object
• Exhibit

ID Number

SIA2011-0501

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Object; Medium: Photographic print

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