Worker at the Corning Glass Works

ID: SIA2011-0517 and 32046-A

Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1935

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

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Summary

At the Corning Glass Works, a manufacturer of glass and ceramic products for industrial, scientific and technical uses, at Corning, New York.,a worker sits at his workstation as he looks at the glass object created at the end of a blowpipe.

Subject

  • Corning Glass Works
  • Corning Incorporated

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
  • Men
  • Plant layout
  • Factories
  • New York (State)

Place

  • Corning (N.Y.)
  • New York (State)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior
  • Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-0517 and 32046-A

Physical description

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

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