The Paul Hollister slide photographs consist of approximately 17,000 slides compiled by late glass scholar, glass collector, and painter Paul Hollister (1918-2004). The slides were donated as two separate groups:
The first group of approximately 11,000 slides was compiled as teaching images to accompany Hollister's lectures on the history of glass. About 8,500 of these slides are reproduction images from primary and secondary sources. About 2,250 slides are photographs taken by Hollister showing glass objects in exhibitions and museum collections. Additionally, there are about 250 images taken by Hollister showing notable glassmakers working in studios, demonstrating techniques, and giving workshops. Artists pictured include Dale Chihuly, Howard Ben Tre, Benjamin Moore, Paul Stankard, Mark Peiser, Lino Tagliapietra, and Marvin Lipofsky.
Studios and workshops pictured include Blenko Glass Company (WV), Penland Glass Workshops (NC), WheatonArts/Wheaton Village (NJ), Experimental Mulberry Street (New York, NY), Experimental Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY), Pairpoint (MA), Mosaic Studio, Vatican (Italy), studio of Howard Ben Tre, and New York Experimental Glassworks.
The second group of slides consists of approximately 6,000 images taken by Paul Hollister on his travels throughout the United States and Europe. Most of these slides are from the 1980s and 1990s, though about 2,000 are dated from the 1960s.
