Spectacles
notes: label: Description
content: George P. Phillips was an optician in Philadelphia who made some glasses for a nun in the mid-1920s. When that nun returned to her mother house in Rome, she showed her new glasses to her ophthalmologist, and he arranged to have similar glasses made for Pope Pius XI (1857-1939). These gold-rimmed bifocals are those papal glasses.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: Vatican City
topic: label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lt. Col. G. R. Phillips, USMC (Ret.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0570.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0570.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0570
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spectacles
label: Object Name
content: spectacles, set
label: Other Terms
content: Spectacles; Vision Aids
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cream (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 12.5 cm x 5.3 cm; 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in x 2 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 13.335 cm x 5.715 cm