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camera stand

Date1950-1970
Inventory Number1998-1-1533a
ClassificationCamera Stand
Subject
    Manufacturer Linhof 1887-present
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions92 x 65 x 75 cm (36 1/4 x 25 9/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
        mount: 14.9 x 14 x 14 cm (5 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
        Material
          AccessoriesOne black c
          DescriptionLarge tripod stand supporting a plateau with green leather cover. The handle extending outward is used to raise and lower the central pillar, on which a ball-and-socket mount is attached at the top. A small handle on the latter is used to raise and lower the mount independently from the central pillar. There is a graduated circle on the mount, 0-360 degrees, the smaller division being 15°.

          There is a Linhoff tag that says this stand is a "Deluxe camera stand." On the reverse, handwritten, a name: Dr. Ingraham.
          Signedon sticker: Linhof / GROSSER / KURBEL- EINSATZ
          camera stand
          Linhof
          Date: 1950-1970
          Accessories: One black c
          Object number: 1998-1-1533b
          stand
          American
          Date: 1900-1950
          Object number: 1997-1-0306
          Society of Arts Prize student compound microscope
          English
          Date: 1850-1875
          Accessories: 2 objectives with canisters: 1/4, 1 inch; 14 prepared slides; 6 glass slides; 1 micrometer slide (100th, 1000th inch rulings); tweezers; case with parts drawer
          Object number: 1102
          Beck Small Best Wenham-type binocular compound microscope
          R. & J. Beck
          Date: 1876
          Accessories: oculars (2) in microscope; Darker's selenite retarding filters (3); wheel diaphragm; mechanical rotary stage; stage slider. Other accessories are in the case (1122b), including monocular draw tube; oculars (3); objectives in cans (5); empty can; Lieberkühn; polarizing set; slides; camera lucidas (2); etc.; plus a Beck patent substage condenser (1122c); and apertometer (1122d).
          Object number: 1122a
          Tripod Mount (sideways head)
          Linhof
          Date: 1950-1970
          Object number: 1998-1-1533d
          Watson Swinging Substage Wenham-type binocular compound microscope
          W. Watson & Sons Ltd.
          Date: circa 1885
          Accessories: oculars (2 pairs): B and D; objectives in marked canisters (4): 1/4, 1/2, 1, 3 inches; condenser with iris diaphragm; rotating wheel diaphragm; iris diaphragm; set of 4 disk diaphragms in brass box; triple nosepiece; live box; prisms for Wenham binocular system (2); stage for simple microscope with rotating wheel diaphragm; vulcanite stage; spare knobs (2); parts box; case
          Object number: 1249
          Zentmayer intermediate binocular and monocular compound microscope
          Joseph Zentmayer
          Date: circa 1880
          Accessories: Zentmayer objective with cannister: 1 1/2; paired oculars (3); Bicknell's achromatic condenser; rotating wheel diaphragm; polarizing eyepiece, polarizer by objective; camera lucida; plane glass window and brass socket; monocular tube; parts box with key; standing case with key.
          Object number: 1015
          camera mount, Linhof pan head
          Linhof
          Date: 1950-1970
          Object number: 1998-1-1533c
          Pulfrich refractometer by Zeiss
          Carl Zeiss Jena
          Date: circa 1926
          Accessories: wooden box with two hook-and-eye latches to fasten front opening; in instrument file: instruction book (photocopy); Geissler tube labeled "H2"; carboard tube containing German thermometer C in stainless steel holder that screws into instrument; glass bottle with cork stopper labeled "Monobromnaphthalin, Germany nD=1 658"; small round cardboard box labeled "For Pulfrich Refractometer" containing one tubulure
          Object number: 1996-1-0229
          Green wooden storage box containing transformers.
          Date: 1900-1930
          Object number: RS0653
          Gramont arc and spark apparatus
          Adam Hilger Ltd.
          Date: circa 1928
          Object number: 1996-1-0668