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Title: Mt. Washington Glass Works, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name), Mount Washington Glass Works (originator)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_01_091
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: Glass blower making chemical laboratory glassware
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Rittase, William R. (photographer)
Description: The glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces necessary are very complex, demanding an extremely high order of skill on the part of the glass blower. The glass blower in this photograph is engaged in making one of the intricate pieces necessary for work in the laboratories. On the left is a special...
Show moreThe glass blower is indispensable to the modern research lab. At the Experimental Station located near Wilmington, Delaware a glass blower's shop is maintained where special apparatus necessary for research is fashioned. Some of the pieces necessary are very complex, demanding an extremely high order of skill on the part of the glass blower. The glass blower in this photograph is engaged in making one of the intricate pieces necessary for work in the laboratories. On the left is a special burner used in heating the glass to the point where it is soft enough to be blown into the desired shapes.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4436
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Crystal Clear production stills
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), Fostoria Glass Company (sponsor)
Description: Depicts the process of crystal glassware manufacture. Includes scenes of a couple in their kitchen, as well as the process of glassblowing, glass purification, and quality assurance in the manufacturing plant.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Production films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_39_62
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Glass blower at work at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Experimental Station
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Lofman, Jacob (photographer)
Description: Art and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products. Skilled craftsmen form miles of tubing into complicated spirals, columns and coils within tubes, linking them together to provide the research chemist with the tools needed to solve specific problems. Here a glass blower heats a section of tube into...
Show moreArt and science get together in glass blowers' shop at the Experiment Station. This craft is an indispensable adjunct of industrial chemistry, providing complex laboratory equipment for intricate processes by which research develops new products. Skilled craftsmen form miles of tubing into complicated spirals, columns and coils within tubes, linking them together to provide the research chemist with the tools needed to solve specific problems. Here a glass blower heats a section of tube into the first step of an operation which will shape it into final form as a perfectly rounded flask.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4450
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Glass blower making chemical laboratory glassware
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Where an art abets a science. Glass blowers supply chemists with special laboratory apparatus essential to exploring chemical world. Here a glass blower gives final form to a part for high vacuum still used in chemical research at the Experiment Station.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4438
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Glass blower at DuPont's Eastern Lab in Gibbstown, New Jersey
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This glass blower at DuPont's Eastern Lab in Gibbstown, New Jersey depends on fire, fueled with oxygen and gas, to make lab glassware. The flame on his Bunsen burner can be regulated from needle point to 1.5 inches.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4431
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Industry on Parade: Episode 172
Date(s): 1954
Contributor(s): National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (sponsor), Arthur Lodge Productions (production company)
Description: Episode on avocado industry in Florida, glass blowing in West Virginia, new shopping centers in New York, workers at aircraft factory taking breaks in factory.
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: FILM_1973418_FC62
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers