#frederick carder

We’re ready for Halloween at the Rakow Library! Local glassmaker Frederick Carder sent this delightfully spooky postcard to his son, Cyril, for Halloween 1916. Postcard from Frederick Carder to Cyril Carder, 1916. Frederick Carder Papers. MS0017.  

We always love seeing these pictures from the height of cut glass production in the Crystal City! In 1903, Thomas Hawkes, the founder of local cut glass firm T. G Hawkes & Co., recruited English glassmaker Frederick Carder to establish Steuben Glass Works in Corning, NY. This photo shows Thomas’ son, Samuel, and Frederick Carder in front of Steuben Glass Works the year it was founded. The Rakow Library digitized this photo from a negative lent to us by Jane Levatino, who was Samuel Hawkes’ granddaughter. 

[Frederick Carder and Samuel Hawkes in front of Steuben Glass Works office] [picture]., Corning, NY, 1903. CMGL 112278.