This time of year, bird lovers are still enjoying the sight of tiny, brilliantly-colored birds racing by their windows in a blur of beating wings. Have you ever thought about the original feeders developed for these minuscule flyers? Unlike bird … Read more →
Today’s post is from Museum Explainer Meredith Rector. Sometimes even computers need help. This is something that I have learned in the past few weeks volunteering at the Rakow Research Library. I work as a Museum Explainer, but when I … Read more →
The Rakow Library has acquired a trade catalog produced by the DeVilbiss Company of Toledo, Ohio. DeVilbiss produced luxury glass items, considered elegant and sophisticated due to the tall and sleek shape of many of the glass bottles. The perfume bottles, perfume … Read more →
Constructed in the 1920s, the Museum’s glass casket (2001.4.234) weighs between 400 and 500 pounds. The type of pressing machine that was used to make it weighed approximately 31,000 lbs. The American Glass Casket Company claimed that their casket press, measuring 13 … Read more →