Man Blowing Glass, Corning Glass Company

Summary

A worker standing on a platform at the Corning Glass Company, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses, at Corning, New York, blows through a blowpipe inflating the molten glass to make a glass object. Several other workers can also be seen.

Subject

• Corning Incorporated
• Corning Glass Works

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• This image was 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, Record Unit 7433 Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 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
• Glass
• Personnel management
• Employees
• Plant layout
• Factories
• New York (State)
• Manufacturing

Place

• Corning (N.Y.)
• New York (State)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid
• Interior

ID Number

SIA2011-0508 or 32047?

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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