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Type of Object
Eyeglasses
Place of Manufacture
Richmond (Va.)
Date of Manufacture
1920-1950
Physical Details
Pair of tortoiseshell eyeglasses in a snap closure leather case. Two round, concave lenses, made of glass and intended for magnification fit into a yellow and brown tortoiseshell frame. Frame is heavily degraded, left lens is loose and frame is crumbling. Outside of leather case is stamped: "Hall Optical Co., Inc. Norfolk VA Richmond"
Dimensions
6 cm. x 15 cm. x 1.5 cm.
Medical Subject
Eyeglasses
Accession Number
1982.101e
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Eyeglasses and Case, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00087.jpg