Camera Lucida
date: label: date made
content: around 1820-1830
name: label: maker
content: Carpenter, Philip
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this Wollaston-type camera lucida reads “Carpenter / 24 Regent St / London.” That in the box reads “P. CARPENTER / OPTICIAN / REGENT ST. / CORNER OF / JERMYN ST. / LONDON.” Both refer to Philip Carpenter (1776-1833), a manufacturing optician in Birmingham and later in London who specialized in kaleidoscopes and magic lanterns. The firm later became Carpenter & Westley.
label: Description
content: This camera lucida was used at Saint Joseph’s Academy and Free School, in Emmitsburg, Md. Established by Elizabeth Ann Seaton, shortly after her arrival at Emmitsburg in 1809, this was the first free parochial school for girls in the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: Phillip Roberts, “Philip Carpenter and the convergence of science and entertainment in the early nineteenth-century instrument trade.” http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-07/philip-carpenter-and-the-convergence-of-science/
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: St. Joseph's College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325781
label: catalog number
content: 325781
label: accession number
content: 257689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Camera Lucida
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 in; 22.86 cm x 5.715 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 9 in x 2 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 22.86 cm x 6.985 cm