Robert C. Friedrich Collection of Glassware Advertisements

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Robert C. Friedrich Collection of Glassware Advertisements

1931-1957

https://archivesspace.cmog.org/repositories/3/resources/127

This collection consists of magazine advertisements for glassware for the table and home. The U.S. American magazines _House and Garden_ and _House Beautiful_ are the primary sources of the advertisements. Companies represented include Steuben, Libbey, Cambridge, Fostoria, Blenko, Seneca, Westmoreland, Duncan, Heisey, Anchorglass, and others. Some of the ads depict women using glassware in domestic settings; one features a woman working in a glass factory during World War II.

2.7 linear feet

eng, Latn

Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11645031

Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

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Friedrich, Robert C., 1934-2006

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Robert Friedrich spent most of his career as a librarian with the Queens Library System in New York and was known as the College Point Neighborhood historian. He also owned a collectables shop in California in the 1970s. Friedrich was a collector of milk glass, and he wrote a number of articles for the periodical of the National Milk Glass Collectors Society....