Word: blaschka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work. This means that the collection has probably reached its final form, the annual report of Oakes Ames '98, Director of the Botanical Museum, disclosed Saturday...
...shortly after the establishment of the Botanical Museum, George Lincoln Goodale, professor of Botany and first Curator of the Museum, was looking for a concrete exhibit to give the museum a firm start. He heard of the work of Leopold Blaschka, Rudolph's father, and went over to Hosterwitz. On the mantel were two models of orchids...
Museums of Comparative Zoology and Botany, and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants and Flowers, week-days from 9 A.M. to 4.30 P.M.; Sundays, from...
...flowers arrived in Cambridge, completely rained by the Custom agents. Old Leopold is dead, but his son, specially trained in botany and Zoology, carries on his father's work. The Harvard collection has become famous, and is unrivalled because the University has a monopoly of the work of Rudolph Blaschka, the only living man who knows the secret of making the flowers. The shipment of flowers just received may be the last, for Rudolph is now old, and he has trained no successor. It would be too much to comment on the passing of such artistry...
...known possessions of the University, was begun in 1886, with the aid of a bequest from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware, of Boston, and Miss. Mary LeeWare, as a memorial to Dr. C. E. Ware 1834. It is the product of the skill of two Swiss naturalists, the late Leopoid Blaschka and his son Rudolph, who have constructed all the models without assistance of any kind. The collection is the only one of its kind in the world...