Washington Navy Yard Optical Shop Photoprints
name: label: Collector
content: Freedman, Margaret A.
label: Names
content: Navy Yard Optical Shop, Washington, D.C.
label: Names
content: Goff, John C. (optical inspector)
place: label: Place
content: Washington (D.C.) -- 1940-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Optics -- 1940-1970 -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Optical technicians -- 1940-1970
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Margaret A. Freedman on June 9, 1986.
creator: label: Collector
content: Freedman, Margaret A.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Washington Navy Yard Optical Shop Photoprints
abstract: label: Summary
content: John C. Goff worked as an inspector at the Navy Yard Optical Shop during World War II. He might provide additional information, but efforts to contact him to identify the photographs in 1987 were unsuccessful. Deborah Warner, curator, may be able to assist researchers.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: No historical information about the subject of these photographs is available at the present time.  Efforts have been made to contact Mr. John C. Goff, who was an employee of the Washington Navy Yard Optical Shop during World War II, and who is a former NMAH Division of Electricity volunteer.  It is hoped that he will provide information about the history and activities of the Optical Shop and identify the photographs.  The maker of the photographs in the collection is unidentified, but it presumably was a Navy staff photographer.
function: label: Function
content: Optics testing -- ca. 1941-1961 -- Washington (D.C.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940-1961
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Physical Sciences (now Division of Medicine and Science) through Deborah Warner, curator. The donor presented the collection to Ms. Warner originally.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0252
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is unarranged.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 1988
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1940-1970
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 17 photographs depicting employees, equipment, and facilities of the Washington Navy Yard Optical Shop, 1940s-1961.