Bob Banford discusses small studio glass makers in South Jersey before the studio glass movement.

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Bob Banford

Bob Banford discusses small studio glass makers in South Jersey before the studio glass movement. Oral history interview with Bob Banford by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 19, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:35.

Bob Banford: Down in South Jersey, there had been glassblowers working individually in their own small studios making glass since probably, oh, the late, the late thirties, they started with this. There was [August] Hofbauer and [Emil] Larson who used to, and the guys still worked in the different—Durand [Art] Glass and, and different ones, that worked in those factories started on their own after Durand had gone bankrupt through the depression as well, which is the biggest reason they went bankrupt.