Contact Lenses
date: label: Date made
content: 1942-1947
notes: label: Description
content: As a young woman in 1942, Miriam Russ wore very thick glasses, despaired of finding a husband, and turned to contact lenses made. "I can't remember ever wearing them,” she recalled. “They were so large and thick and must have been difficult to put on and painful to wear."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miriam Russ
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0064.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0064.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Contact Lenses
label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic; steel; textile; imitation leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 2.6 cm x 1.5 cm; 7/8 in x 1 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm