Slide Box

Accessories: The three objects in box are not objects you would find in a slide box. They have been given the numbers 1988-0022a, 1988-0022b, 1988-0022c.

Object number: 1988-0022

Accessories: The three objects in box are not objects you would find in a slide box. They have been given the numbers 1988-0022a, 1988-0022b, 1988-0022c.

Object number: 1988-0022b

Accessories: The three objects in box are not objects you would find in a slide box. They have been given the numbers 1988-0022a, 1988-0022b, 1988-0022c.

Object number: 1988-0022c

Polaroid Corporation

Date: circa 1969

Accessories: film (1988-0027b); POLAROID COLD CLIP #193; instruction booklet (in object file); and battery

Object number: 1988-0027a

Zeiss Ikon

Date: circa 1935

Accessories: film holders (3); original leather case; photocopy of instruction manual; photocopy of page on the camera from catalog of 1988 Zeiss Ikon exhibit from the California Museum of Photography.

Object number: 1994-1-0009

Walter Balcke

Date: 1953

Accessories: mahogany box; cardboard instruction card; in library folder (Lib 4927): -twenty-one letters from Joseph L. Walsh, mathematics professor at Harvard University, to Walter Balcke, dated between 27 May 1957 and 24 January 1964 (letters thank Balcke for the many mathematical models he gifted to the Mathematics Department, praise his skill and ingenuity, many invite him to faculty and personal luncheons, and one letter provides an analytic solution to the "13-point problem" behind one of Balcke's models) - one letter from J.L. Walsh directly related to this object, the "modified slide rule", dated February 11, 1953 -three letters from Garret Birkhoff (then Chairman of the Harvard Mathematics Department) dated 3 March 1954, 4 January 1955, and 10 January 1955, each expressing gratitude (and in one case, an official department thank you) for the many mathematical models he gifted to the mathematics department -photocopy of original envelope in which correspondence between mathematics department and Walter Balcke was stored (original was destroyed on 13 July 1997) -photocopy of instructional card for object 1997-1-1671 - seven instructional cards that accompany the following Balcke models: Pascal's Theorem, Brianchon's Concurrent Lines, Trisector, Twelve Point Ellipse, Rolling Parabola, unknown, Equation Solution with a 'Constant' Variable and Thread - photograph of the display case containing Balcke's models in the Harvard Mathematics department

Object number: 1997-1-1609

Radium Chemical Company

Date: circa 1900

Accessories: metal needles (2); black rubber tubes with one conical end (5); large black pellets with small metal tubes protruding from the center (2); brown rubber tubes (4); dumbbell-like objects (2); small black caps (4); large black objects with rectangles gouged out of them (2); black cylindrical canisters (4); a metal tube with a screw top; and a bucket of misc. objects

Object number: 1998-1-0115

Matthew Loft

Date: 1730-1747

Accessories: objective (5); spring slide holder; circular carrier (10 objects); stage forceps; cone diaphragm; ivory slider (2); round glass disc; brass ring; ivory box of covers; frog plate; key for case

Object number: 1181

Accessories: Box of misceallaneous hardware, stand with 2 discs mounted inside, mercury, cylindrical object with 2 wires, large square box and smaller rectangular box. The objects with mercury were removed from FAE and are currently stored in B17.

Object number: RS1233

Charles Lincoln

Date: 1770-1775

Accessories: 5 objectives; 1 Lieberkühn; 1 cone; tadpole glasses and wire; 6 ivory slides; mica covers and wire rings; stage bull's eye magnifier; 2 hand magnifiers; spring slide holder; fish plate; instruction booklet; fold out plate (glued to cardstock); list of objects on slides.

Object number: 1047

Walter Balcke

Date: 1953

Accessories: mahogany box; cardboard instruction card; in library folder (Lib 4927): -twenty-one letters from Joseph L. Walsh, mathematics professor at Harvard University, to Walter Balcke, dated between 27 May 1957 and 24 January 1964 (letters thank Balcke for the many mathematical models he gifted to the Mathematics Department, praise his skill and ingenuity, many invite him to faculty and personal luncheons, and one letter provides an analytic solution to the "13-point problem" behind one of Balcke's models) - one letter from J.L. Walsh pertains directly to this object, dated October 27, 1953 -three letters from Garret Birkhoff (then Chairman of the Harvard Mathematics Department) dated 3 March 1954, 4 January 1955, and 10 January 1955, each expressing gratitude (and in one case, an official department thank you) for the many mathematical models he gifted to the mathematics department -photocopy of original envelope in which correspondence between mathematics department and Walter Balcke was stored (original was destroyed on 13 July 1997) -photocopy of instructional card for object 1997-1-1671 - seven instructional cards that accompany the following Balcke models: Pascal's Theorem, Brianchon's Concurrent Lines, Trisector, Twelve Point Ellipse, Rolling Parabola, unknown, Equation Solution with a 'Constant' Variable and Thread - photograph of the display case containing Balcke's models in the Harvard Mathematics department

Object number: 1997-1-1610

Keuffel & Esser Company

Date: circa 1928

Accessories: green carboard box; large wooden box (996-1-0072a) used to contain all objects in series

Object number: 1996-1-0072m