Distal Spectacles Trial Case
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Carl Zeiss, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden case with a “CARL ZEISS / JENA / Distal Spectacles Trial Case / Distal Spectacles for the weaksighted and extreme / shortsighted" inscription on the lid. Zeiss was advertising items of this sort by 1913. William Thornwald Davis, an physician who became a professor at George Washington University, used this set during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from William J. G. Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-14108
label: catalog number
content: M-14108
label: accession number
content: 298221
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Testing, Lens
label: Object Name
content: lens trial kit
label: Object Name
content: spectacles
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Testing, Lens; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 14 1/8 in x 11 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 35.8775 cm x 28.2575 cm