miscellaneous lenses & optical parts
Date: 1900-1950
Inventory Number: 1998-1-0184
Classification: Lenses
Subject:
Maker: American
Supplier: Edmund Salvage Company (fl. 1942 - 1950)
Maker: Edmund Scientific Corporation (1950 - 2000)
Owner: William James ? (1842 - 1910)
City of Use:
Dimensions:
box: 12 × 31 × 16.5 cm (4 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Description:
Collection of glass lenses, apertures, prisms, and other optical equipment, with small envelopes detailing some of them.
Signedunsigned
Curatorial RemarksFound with William James instruments from room 1421, once located on the 5th floor. Though it may be right for some items in this set, the ones sold by the Edmund Companies had to be acquired after the early 1940s.