This post comes from Alaina McNeal, the Public Services Outreach intern at the Rakow Research Library. You might recognize Dorothy C. Thorpe’s work if you watched the TV show, Mad Men. Rounded with a silver band at the top, the … 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 →
Today’s blog author is Laurie Bousquet, a glass artist based in southern France near Montpellier. Having blown glass since 2000 and worked with the Hot Glass team at The Corning Museum of Glass for three years, she currently works at … Read more →
For Pyrex, the 1980s was a period of product renewal and rethinking. Pyrex measuring cups were a staple in American homes long before a revolutionary redesign in 1983 that allowed the cups to be stacked maximizing storage space in the … Read more →