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Just Glass

Album Description

How We Got to Now:Glass

Prime Video  or PBS

Steven Johnson


What a wonderful program that spoke about “What would the world be like without glass”? I loved the question and the thought. I put together some primary sources for an introduction to the idea of glass.  I would have them examine the sources to figure out the connection that each of these sources have.  Then I would ask the  kids to  brainstorm things that involve glass. Have them watch the video and research some of the great attributes of glass.


Having students think about glass would really get them thinking about how important that one product is to our world. In Johnson’s video, which can be found on PBS or Amazon Prime for a price, Johnson speaks about how glass changed the world. I never thought of it before but it truly did. Johnson connects glass to just about every facet of life from economics , to education, to health. I think this would prove to be an enlightening study for students of all ages. I highly recommend the video as well as thinking about other simple products that changed our world.

Spinning glass thread for the manufacture of mats and baskets, Island of Murano, Venice, Italy

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2003670823/.

Reference note

Summary: Stereograph showing two women with spinning wheel.
Contributor Names: Keystone View Company, publisher
Created / Published: Meadville, Pa. ; St. Louis, Mo. ; San Francisco, Cal. ; Toronto, Can. ; New York, N.Y. ; London, England : Keystone View Company, Manufacturers and Publishers, 1905.
Subject Headings: -  Spinning apparatus--1900-1910
-  Baskets--1900-1910
-  Spinning--Italy--Venice--1900-1910
-  Women--Employment--Italy--Venice--1900-1910
-  Venice (Italy)--1900-1910
Genre: Stereographs--1900-1910
Photographic prints--1900-1910
Notes: -  Copyright 1905 by the Keystone View Co.
-  No. 6454.
-  Title from item.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: stereo 1s29848 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s29848
cph 3b20823 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b20823

[Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Exterior]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2020714554/.

Reference note

Contributor Names: Balthazar Korab Studios, Ltd., photographer
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005, architect
Created / Published: [between 1955 and 2007]
Subject Headings: -  Glass House (New Canaan, Conn.)
-  Houses--Connecticut--New Canaan--1950-2010
Genre: Architectural photographs--1950-2010
Digital photographs--1950-2010
Notes: -  Title devised by Library staff.
-  Digital file from optical disc titled "B. Korab Portfolio '07, ♭Korab Ltd." originally in KORAB F3107.
-  TIFF file created in 2020 by LC as a service copy from original JPG.
-  Materials originally from folder "AIA 150 Book Disk + thumbnails + building list + papers." Discs were originally grouped with materials for the "Great Architecture of Michigan" book, and were intended as handouts to visitors.
-  Purchase; Balthazar Korab Ltd; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:125).
-  General information about the Korab collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.krb
-  Forms part of: Balthazar Korab collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppem 00719 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppem.00719

One of several displays showcasing the work of artist Dale Chihuly, an American blown-glass sculptor and entrepreneur, at the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018698630/

Reference note

Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Date Created/Published: 2018-05-14.
Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 50428 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Subjects: United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle. America Chihuly Garden and Glass Dale Chihuly Glass art Seattle Center

Sand dunes in Southern California

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013633428/.

Reference note

Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2012.
Subject Headings: -  United States--California
-  Sand dunes
-  America
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes: -  Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.
-  Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
-  Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).
-  Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 22971 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.22971

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. This worker is ladling white-hot molten glass from a furnace in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. When viscosity of the molten glass is at the point required by rigid quality control specification, it will be used to form the glass marbles from which glass yarns are drawn in another operation

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017690586/

Reference note

Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
Date Created/Published: 1942 Feb.
Call Number: LC-USE6- D-002716 [P&P] LOT 2015 (corresponding photographic print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1713.
Subjects: United States--Ohio--Lucas County--Toledo.

The several methods of blowing and casting plate glass with the men at work

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2006681230/

Reference note

Created / Published: 1747.
Notes: -  Illus. in: Universal Magazine, Nov. 1747, opp. p. 284.
-  Reference copy may be in LOT 4397I.
-  This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
-  Caption card tracings: Gt. Brit. Eng. Misc.; Rare Bk. Div.; Industry... Glass; Shelf.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3b00157 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b00157