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The Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass is the world’s foremost library on the art and history of glass and glassmaking. Its mission is to acquire everything published on the subject of glass, in every format and in every language.
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Have you ever wondered what raw materials are combined to make a batch of glass? Are you looking for information on a certain glass artist? Is glass a liquid or a solid? Do you know where to look to try to figure out what company made that glass piece that was passed down to you from your great... more
For our latest installment in the Introduction to the Collection Series, I bring you three more categories of materials you can find at The Rakow Research Library: photographs, ephemera, and patents.
We have a sizeable photograph collection at the Library and many more photographs reside within our... more
Early use of the microscope was plagued by several issues, especially the artisanal and imprecise nature of lens grinding. There was no scientific means of producing and evaluating lenses until Ernst Abbe (1840-1906) developed them in the 1870s. Thus, lens grinding was frequently a trial-and-error... more
