Skip to main content
Advanced Search
six lenses
six lenses

six lenses

Date1945-1960
Inventory Number2009-1-0076
ClassificationLenses
Maker 3M Company 1902 - present
User William Alexander Jackson 1905 - 1964
Dimensionslens: 10.3 × 10.3 × 0.5 cm (4 1/16 × 4 1/16 × 3/16 in.)
thinner box: 11 × 11 × 1.5 cm (4 5/16 × 4 5/16 × 9/16 in.)
thicker box: 11 × 11 × 2.5 cm (4 5/16 × 4 5/16 × 1 in.)
blue board box: 12 × 13.5 × 11 cm (4 3/4 × 5 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
DescriptionSix lenses in cardboard packaging. Likely to have been used for microscopy at the Houghton Library.
ProvenanceWilliam A. Jackson, Librarian, Houghton Library, Harvard University, c. 1942 ; transfer to CHSI courtesy of Dennis Marnon, 2009.
Historical AttributesUsed by William A. Jackson (died 1964), first librarian of Houghton Library. When Houghton Library opened in 1942, Jackson invested in a lot of state-of-the-art equipment for examining books and investigating them. The apparatus included microscopes, black lights, and special lamps. This was one of them.
test case lenses
test case lenses
American Optical Company
Date: circa 1962
Object number: WJ0632
Image Not Available for 19 assorted positive lenses
19 assorted positive lenses
American
Date: mid 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0384
box of lenses
box of lenses
American
Date: 1900-1950
Object number: 2007-1-0025
opthalmic lenses
opthalmic lenses
Andrew J. Lloyd Company
Date: circa 1932
Object number: 2007-1-0448
assorted achromatic and opthalmic lenses
assorted achromatic and opthalmic lenses
American Optical Company
Date: 1940-1950
Object number: 1998-1-0521
6 spectacle lenses
6 spectacle lenses
American
Date: 1925-1950
Object number: 2007-1-0309
set of 6 lenses
set of 6 lenses
Queen & Company
Date: 1893-1912
Object number: 1998-1-0464
14 miscellaneous lenses
14 miscellaneous lenses
French
Date: 1900-1950
Object number: 2007-1-0345
Fresnel lenses (9)
Fresnel lenses (9)
Edmund Scientific Corporation
Date: 1970-1985
Object number: 2004-1-0266
bi-convex opthalmic lenses
bi-convex opthalmic lenses
American Optical Company
Date: 1885-1910
Object number: 2007-1-0447
miscellaneous lenses & optical parts
miscellaneous lenses & optical parts
American
Date: 1900-1950
Object number: 1998-1-0184
2 plano-convex lenses
2 plano-convex lenses
American
Date: mid 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-0384a