variable angle attachment for "Luna-Pro" light meter
Datecirca 1965
Inventory Number2000-1-0052a
ClassificationLight Meter
Subject
Maker
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
circa 1943-present
Maker
Kling Photo Corporation
User
Herbert W. Levi
born 1921
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions5 × 6 × 5.1 cm (1 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 in.)
blue board box: 13 × 20 × 13.5 cm (5 1/8 × 7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
blue board box: 13 × 20 × 13.5 cm (5 1/8 × 7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
Material
Accessoriesbox (2000-1-0052b); case (2000-1-0052c); instruction manual (in object file)
DescriptionSmall grey plastic and metal variable angle adapter for Gossen "Luna-Pro" light meters. The instruction manual is inside the instrument box.
Inscribedon adapter: Gossen GERMANY (WEST)
Curatorial RemarksDuring the B17 inventory, we renumbered this object for ease of identification, as we were giving each component an individual number before rehousing, The original number for this group of objects was 2000-1-0019b, but we changed it to 2000-1-0052a. SMF 2/2019.
Instruction manaul removed to object file and has been scanned EMC 2/2019
Historical AttributesUsed for microphotography by Prof. Herbert Walter Levi, Professor of Biology, Emeritus Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Room 131, Cambridge, MA.
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
Date: circa 1965
Object number: 2000-1-0052b
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
Date: circa 1965
Object number: 2000-1-0052c
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
Date: circa 1965
Accessories: b) box; instruction manual (removed to object file)
Object number: 2000-1-0019a
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
Date: circa 1954
Accessories: case (2000-1-0013b)
Object number: 2000-1-0013a
P. Gossen & Company
Date: circa 1965
Object number: 2000-1-0019b
Gossen Foto- und Lichtmesstechnik GmbH
Date: circa 1954
Object number: 2000-1-0013b
Benjamin Martin
Date: circa 1765
Accessories: lunarium (#0052b) and tellurian (#0052c).
Object number: 0052a
Ihagee Kamerawerk G.m.b.H.
Date: circa 1950
Accessories: leather case; tripod mounting screw; homeless Ihagee lens-cap in ziploc bag; microphotography adapting barrels, Ihagee microscope adapter (2000-1-0015b); three manuals (in instrument's file)
Object number: 2000-1-0015a
Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.
Date: after 1967
Accessories: tripod adapting screw; microscope adaptor for microscopic photography (2000-1-0017b)
Object number: 2000-1-0017a
Apple Computer Inc.
Date: 1994
Accessories: labeled brown cardboard box from an identical model; keyboard with built-in connection cable in separate cardboard storage box [see 2000-1-0036b]; desktop mouse with connection cable; black power supply cable; white monitor connection cable; Power Mac user's guide and CD ROM user's guide; instruction manual (in object file)
Object number: 2000-1-0036a
Samuel Thaxter
Date: circa 1820
Accessories: frame (2000-1-0011b)
Object number: 2000-1-0011a
American
Date: 1890-1915
Accessories: in instrument file:
Trow and Holden Company Catalog, Stone Cutting Tools (Barre, VT, 2000)
Emails to and from Professor James Thompson discussing relationship with LaForge
Letters to and from Norman Akley, president of Trow and Holden
Pictures of hammer
Object number: 2000-1-0033
