Opera Glasses
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
name: label: maker
content: Lemaire
notes: label: Description
content: Each eyecup of this small instrument is marked “LEMAIRE FABT * PARIS*.” The objective lenses are 30 mm diameter and the optics are good. The frame is a gilt metal. The barrels, eyecups and center focusing wheel are covered with mother of pearl. The number “61” appears on the central brace as does the Lemaire logo, an image of a bee. The carrying case is black leather with a reddish-brown silk lining.
label: Description
content: Jacques Lemaire began making opera glasses in 1847 and was soon a major manufacturer noted for using mechanization, division of labor, and interchangeable parts. M.J.B. Baille joined the firm in 1871, and took charge in 1885.
label: Description
content: Ref: Nicholas Gilman, <i>A Dividend to Labor: A Study of Employers’ Welfare Institutions</i> (Boston and New York, 1899), pp. 297–304.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jane and Mary Henle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.336801
label: catalog number
content: 336801
label: accession number
content: 1978.2216
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Opera Glasses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 1 1/2 in x 3 15/16 in x 2 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 10.0076 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 13/16 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 in; 7.14375 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.08 cm