Soft-Lite Lenses
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Morris Singer (1889-1949) was born in Russia, settled in New York, imported pink tinted glass from France, hired local opticians to grind spectacle lenses for individual customers, and established the Optical Service Corp., a firm later known as the Soft Lite Lens Co. In 1939, Morris’ son Nathan, president of the Soft Lite Lens Company, “received the Grand Prix awarded to his product by the Paris Exhibition jury of awards.” The Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, the firm that manufactured the lenses, won the collaborators’ award. A published account noted that the lenses “are tinted pink, to absorb light,” and “are useful in cases of extreme sensitiveness to light and are worn by motorists, ski runners and others who cannot stand glare.” (This award was presumably at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, held Paris in 1937).
label: Description
content: Ref: “The House That Nat Built,” The Optometric Weekly (Feb. 21, 1924): 3535.
label: Description
content: Ad for Soft-Lite lenses, in The Optometric Monthly (March 10, 1927): 5.
label: Description
content: “Grand Prix to Lens Maker,” New York Times (Feb. 2, 1939): 143.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0140.583
label: accession number
content: 1984.0140
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0140.583
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lenses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: container: 13/32 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 1.016 cm x 11.43 cm x 11.43 cm