Spectacles
notes: label: Description
content: Gold spectacles with oval lenses (left one missing), W-bridge, and turn-pin extensions on the temples, and a "MANASSE" inscription. Louis Manasse (1841-1897) was born in Germany, spent several years in England, and moved to the United States in the early 1860s. In 1868, now in Chicago, he opened an optical shop that sold goods made by others. He also, for many years, kept track of the daily temperature in the Windy City, and shared this information with others. Manasse' sons continued the business.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Louis Manasse is Dead,” Chicago Tribune (Aug. 2, 1897), p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Freeman Jones
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.227245.04.02
label: accession number
content: 227245
label: catalog number
content: 227245.04.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spectacles
label: Other Terms
content: Spectacles; Vision Aids
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: extended: 2.6 cm x 11.2 cm x 14.8 cm; 1 1/32 in x 4 13/32 in x 5 13/16 in