The Bowery - Yahoo Clubs - Chat about the Bowery Boys comedies. This is a new newsgroup/chat room where you can discuss the Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids and Eastside Kids! A Bowery Boys Website has a nice overview of all the series. Leo Gorcey Jr.'s website where you can get info on his book about him and his father: Me and the Dead End Kid.
Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of pyroxylin (a.k.a. nitrocellulose, cellulose nitrate, flash paper, and gun cotton) in ether and alcohol. There are two basic types: flexible; non-flexible. The flexible type is often used as a surgical dressing or to hold dressings in place.
A core is made of clay mixed with sand, to which have been added organic materials such as straw, grass, leaves or seeds. This core is mounted on a metal rod, and the glassmaker wraps it in hot semi-molten glass drawn into a thread. The glassware thus produced is decorated by the addition of glass threads of different colors, which are formed into zigzags, as here, or into garlands. Once the glass is cool, the clay core is discarded.