In addition to itinerant glassworkers, who entertained audiences with their flameworking/lampworking skills, tradespeople selling glassware or their services as glassmakers traveled to towns throughout Europe, the United States, and most likely other parts of the world. Listed below are a number of primary and secondary resources related to these tradespeople.
For a longer list of materials in the Rakow Library's collection, please inquire about our Glass Tradesmen: Craftsmen, Sellers, Peddlers, Hawkers bibliography.
Kaufrufe und Strassenhändler: eine Bibliographie (Cries and itinerant trades: a bibliography) by The Rakow Library has a number of prints depicting itinerant tradespeople in our collection. Find records for many of these prints in our online catalog.
![Un vitrier / Ein Glaser, Augsburg, Germany : [s. n.], 1730. (CMGL 129851)](http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/1736/images/Rakow_1000116304_crop_CMYK-apd.jpg) |
![Une verriere / Eine Glassmacherin, Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg, Germany : [s. n.], 1730. (CMGL 129856)](http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/1736/images/Rakow_1000116307_crop_CMYK-apd.jpg) |
![Un verrier / Ein Glassmacher, Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg, Germany : [s. n.], 1730. (CMGL 129853)](http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/1736/images/Rakow_1000116305_crop_CMYK-apd.jpg) |
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Un vitrier / Ein Glaser, Martin Engelbrecht, 1730. |
Une verriere / Eine Glassmacherin, Martin Engelbrecht, 1730. |
Un verrier / Ein Glassmacher, Martin Engelbrecht, 1730. |
Femme de vitrier / Eine Glaserin, Martin Engelbrecht, 1730. (CMGL 129855)
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