Can you be haunted by a building? Glass scholar Paul Hollister (1918-2004) certainly thought so and later described his own haunting in a lecture. At age 11, he visited the Crystal Palace, site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, located … Read more →
Every archive has mysteries waiting to be discovered and solved. Recently at the Rakow Research Library, we discovered some unusual items in one of our core collections: The Frederick Carder Papers. Frederick Carder (1863-1963) was a pioneering English glassmaker who … Read more →
In its narrowest definition, a sketchbook is simply “a book filled with paper that is used for drawing” (Merriam-Webster). But if you look closely, sketchbooks are so much more than just pages with markings. They can also help provide an … Read more →
No one’s a big fan of airports, right? There are the crowds, the endless lines and the dull white-washed walls of never-ending corridors. However, there is one airport I wish I could have visited: New York’s Idlewild Airport during the … Read more →