[Workers pose at Corning Glass Works construction site] [photograph].

Title: 
[Workers pose at Corning Glass Works construction site] [photograph].

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Description: 
1 photograph : sepia ; 27 x 34 cm
paper
Format of Material: 
Photographs
Subjects: 
Corning Glass Works Employees Pictorial works.
Corning Glass Works Buildings.
Corning (N.Y.) History 20th century.
Photographs. gmgpc
Bib ID: 
141437
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - Archives (Non-Active)
Call Number: 
Range 144, Bay 5, Shelf 4, Corning Glass Works photograph collection, Box 3
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Notes: 
Mounted within board; dimensions including board are 51 x 69 cm.
Photograph is of about forty male workers posed on platform of Corning Glass Works construction site, some are seating while others are standing. A ladder is balanced against platform near center of photograph. Wooden barrels appear below platform. Five chimney stacks appear in background, thus indicating the an 1889 date, provided that other chimneys are not in place outside of scope of photograph.
This item is in the Corning Glass Works photograph collection.
Corning Glass Works photograph collection
Sent to West Lake Conservators Ltd. October 2014 for conservation.
Photograph is torn completely in two.
Series: 
Corning Glass Works Photograph Collection Construction site

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Published in The generations of Corning : the life and times of a global corporation, Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross: 68579, [plate 6] TP853.N6.D99g.