The Natural History Museum Blaschka collections

References

• N.B. The Blaschka Collection archival materials are from The Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library of Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. It is not known if Leopold and Rudolf were jointly responsible for drafting business letters after Rudolf joined his father in business in 1876 (Reiling, pers. comm.). For simplicity of quotation, the archival drafts of letters have below been referenced to L. Blaschka.
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