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THE LAMPS OF TIFFANY:

Highlights from the Neustadt Collection

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Biographical Information:

Frederick Carder Pioneered Steuben Glass Techniques:

www.coastalantiques.com/archives/august2001/ANTelegantglass.html

 

History of Steuben Glass and Frederick Carder: www.collectics.com/education_steuben.html

 

“Louis Comfort Tiffany: An American Entrepreneur”: http://nhcs.k12.in.us/staff/pbortka/Rookwood/louiscomfortiffany.html

 

Louis Comfort Tiffany:

http://anc.gray-cells.com/p_lt.html

 

“William Morris, 1834-96,” site of the Cheltenham Art Gallery, Cheltenham, UK, http://www.artsandcraftsmuseum.org.uk/

  

Reference:

Artlex Art Dictionary:

www.artlex.com

 

Dictionary.com:

http://dictionary.reference.com

 

Glass Glossary:

www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=78

 

Illustrated Glass Dictionary: www.glassonline.com/dictionary/index.HTML

 

Gilded Age:

The Gilded Age:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html

 

More About the Gilded Age: www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/gildedage/html/8515482.html

 

The American Experience, Millionaire’s Row: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gallery.index.html

 

Material Culture:

http://cat.xula.edu/ssaa/Contact/matdef.htm

 

Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899: www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899veblen.html

 

Glass and Art and Cultural History:

Art Nouveau:

http://www.nga.gov/education/tchan_1.htm

 

Art Nouveau:

www.artchive.com/artchive/art_nouveau.html

 

Art Nouveau:

http://www.nga.gov/education/tchan_1.htm

 

Arts and Crafts movement,  the Morse Museum: http://wwwmorsemuseum.org/artscrafts.html

 

Arts and Crafts Movement:

http://anc.gray-cells.com/Intro.html

 

Aesthetic Movement, Decadence, 1890s: www.webdesk.com/quotations/aes.html

 

Plant motifs across other cultures:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/learning/schools/online_resources/

 

 

Glass History:

Glassmaking Discovered:

www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=268

 

A Short History of Eighteenth-Century English Glass: www.cosmos-club.org/journals/1999/kaplan.html

 

Stained Glass Information:

http://www.stainedglassbiz.com

 

Glass in History: http://www.glassonweb.com/glassmanual/index.php

 

Corning Museum of Glass:  Glass Factory Jobs

http://www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=291

 

American Flint Glass Workers Union:

http://www.glasslinks.com/trivia/afgwu.htm

 

 

Science of Glass:

Chemistry of Glass/Chemical Cousins: www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=284

 

Colored Glass:

www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=270

 

Feel the Fire: Hot Glass: www.glassblowing.com/hotglass/index.php4

 

The Glassy State – In Brief:

www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=225

 

Properties of Glass: Chemical: www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=316

 

Properties of Glass: Mechanical: www.cmog.org/page.cfm?page=311

 

Strength of Glass: www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/history/property1.html

 

The Magic of Dichroic Glass: http://www.littleworlds.com/magic.htm

 

Science of Glass:  http://www.glassonweb.com/glassmanual/index.php


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