Portraits of America

Dipping molten glass on blowpipe and shaping it on moulding stone - American Glass Bottle Industry

1907·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
Dipping molten glass on blowpipe and shaping it on moulding stone - American Glass Bottle Industry, 1907 (Library of Congress)
Dipping molten glass on blowpipe and shaping it on moulding stone - American Glass Bottle Industry, 1907 (Library of Congress)
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1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.


The record identifies this 1907 stereograph as showing a glassworker dipping molten glass on a blowpipe and shaping it on a moulding stone in the American glass bottle industry.

The photograph was made as a stereo card, a format designed to create a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope.

No further information about the location, the specific factory, or the worker pictured has been recorded. The context and details of this particular workplace remain unknown.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.


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