Answer key from previous page:

1. Corning Incorporated, C Building – glass and Vitrolite,

an opaque architectural glass

2. Birkerts Building – glass sprayed with liquid stainless steel,

mirrors, concrete

3. Corning Family YMCA – brick and glass

Junior Girl Scout Requirements:

Make sure to visit the Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum, also located

in Corning, NY, to learn even more Corning history.

Please join us at The Corning Museum of Glass for our other Scout

offerings throughout the year. Girl Scouts will enjoy our Bead It!

program, and all Scouts benefi t from our Super Scout Saturday event

every fall.

Visit our website for more information: www.cmog.org/scouts.

Please contact us at scouts@cmog.org if you have any questions

about the Museum’s Scout programming.

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A self-guided brochure for Scout troops, dens, or families.

Concepts explored in this visit will assist Scouts studying local history,

infl uential people, and monuments.

Completed:

1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10You’ve earned your badge!

Local Lore

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ExploreChanges in CorningThe glass industry is an important part of Corning’s history. Let’s explore

how it has changed over the years. First, fi nd the Glass Collection Galleries

and visit the Crystal City Gallery. On the wall outside this gallery you will

see an early painting of Corning before any glass factories existed here

and a photograph of the old Corning Glass Works factory. If you are famil-

iar with Corning, is there anything from the painting you recognize today?

Here is a photo of Corning Glass Works from the 1870’s:

Compare it with this photo of Corning Glass Works from around 1905. What has changed?

Corning ArchitectureOver time, more and more buildings were added to Corning, each with

their own special style. See if you can fi nd these three buildings around

the vicinity of the Museum. What kinds of materials were used to build

these structures? Record your notes about the buildings below.

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The Studio

Parking Lot

Main Museum Building

YMCA

Birkerts Building(curvy)

Corning IncorporatedC Building

Muse

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Way

Parking Lot

1. Corning Family YMCA (1936)

2. Birkerts Building (part of the Museum) (1980)

3. Corning Incorporated, C Building (1957)

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Frederick Carder and Steuben Glass Works

Frederick Carder was an English

designer who came to Corning in

1903 and worked as the Manager of

Steuben Glass Works for 30 years.

He developed many new colors and

techniques for glass. Carder worked

with glass until he was 96 years old!

Visit the Carder Gallery at The Studio, which is across the parking lot at the

rear of the Museum. Write a short poem about Carder’s contribution to

Corning here:

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Rouge Flambe Vase, Corning, NY, Steuben Glass Works, about 1916

Finally, compare those photos with a current one of Corning

Incorporated (this used to be called Corning Glass Works):

What has changed in Corning and what is still the same?

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Are any of the changes good for Corning?

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Would you like to undo any of the changes?

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How will Corning change in the next 20, 50, or 100 years?

Remember, there are always new glass inventions being made by

Corning Incorporated, such as LCD computer screens. Draw a

map, picture, or chart below to show how Corning may change.

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ExploreCorningThe Crystal City

Corning is called the

“Crystal City.” Walk through

the Crystal City Gallery to

see if you can fi gure out why.

You will fi nd clues by look-

ing at the models of men

working in the factories and

watching the black and white

video. Also, look at the labels

of the objects in the gallery.

In what city were all of these

objects decorated?

Covered Potpourri Jar, Corning, NY, H. P. Sinclaire and Co., about 1926

In downtown Corning,

there is a tall white tower

that was used around 1912

to stretch out long glass

tubes for thermometers. It

is no longer in use today,

but it is a landmark for

Corning. “Little Joe” is

the glassblower painted at

the top. See if you can fi nd

the tower when you look

through the real submarine

periscope in the Optics

Gallery of the Museum’s

Innovation Center. Can you

also see Corning Incorpo-

rated from the periscope?

Remember, Corning

Incorporated looks like the

picture on page 3.

Little Joe

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