Lens Collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952, half length, facing front, adjusting lens... c1936
Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952, half length, facing front, adjusting lens of large tripod camera, in front of the Arts Club, 2017 Eye Street, Washington, D.C. c1936

Bull's Eye Lamp, c. 1939. Creator: Charlotte Winter
Bull's Eye Lamp, c. 1939

A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kobo Daishis Poem on the Jewel River of Koya (Koya no Tamagawa: Kobo Daishi), ca. 1788

Bulls Eye Hand Lantern, c. 1942. Creator: Ernest A Towers Jr
Bulls Eye Hand Lantern, c. 1942

Camera, Leica, Spectrographic, 35mm, Glenn, Friendship 7, ca. 1962. Creator: Leica
With this camera, a Leica 1g model, astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. carried out the first human-operated, astronomical experiment in space during his pioneering mission on February 20, 1962

Camera, Kodak, 1A Autographic Junior, Lt. Lowell Smith, 1924. Creator: Kodak
1A Autographic Kodak Junior folding camera for A-116 film.Kodak F7.7, 130mm lens no.149925; black leatherette case. Lt. Lowell Smith took this No

Lens, 50mm, Gemini 4, ca. 1965. Creator: Carl Zeiss AG
This Zeiss lens was used on the Zeiss Ikon camera Ed White used during his spacewalk on Gemini IV. The flown camera, considered U.S

L Academie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts, 1698. Creator
L Academie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts, 1698

Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1671. Creator
Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1671

The Adoration of the Trinity, 1566. Creator: Cornelis Cort
The Adoration of the Trinity, 1566

A Perfect Description of the Firework in Covent Garden that was perform d at the Charge of the Gentry and other inhabitans of that Parish for ye joyfull returan [sic] of His Ma[jes]tie from His

Copy after Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Frans
Copy after " Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614-1673), and Their Son Frans (1633-1678)"

A Lighthouse Lantern with Group Flashing Lenses, c1930. Creator: Unknown
A Lighthouse Lantern with Group Flashing Lenses, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

William and Caroline Herschel, pub. 1896. Creator: American School (19th Century)
William and Caroline Herschel, pub. 1896 (colour lithograph). Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750 - 1848), first woman to discover a Comet and assisted her brother

Newton Invents a New Telescope, c1934. Illustration showing Isaac Newton (1643-1727) with his invention, the Newtonian telescope, and assistant grinding lenses

Interior view of St Pauls Cathedral, City of London, c1720

Polyorama Panoptique, c1851. Box with expanding bellows, a lens, a shutter and a set of slides that can be inserted. By altering the aperture of the shutter the image on the slide changes from day

Reading the Temperature with a Lens. 12 July, 1894, 1894 (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

A photograph of a horse taken with a Zeiss Tessar lens, c1908. Artist: Franz Kuhn
A photograph of a horse taken with a Zeiss Tessar lens, c1908. From Penroses Pictorial Annual, Vol. XIV, edited by William Gamble. [A.W. Penrose & Co. Ltd, London, 1908-9]

Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist, 18th century (1906). Three drawings in pencil by Bernard Lens, in the royal collection at Windsor Castle

Group of royal portraits, late 17th - early 18th century (1906). Queen Anne (enamel by C Boit, 1713), William III (portion of miniature), Mary II (enamel by CF Zincke), George I (by Bernard Lens)

The Royal Family. Artist: Cooper
The Royal Family. King William III, Queen Mary II, Prince George of Denmark and Princess Anne of Denmark

Stand camera, 1904. A print from The Girls Own Annual, 22 October 1904

Lens manufacture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Artist: L Sabattier
Lens manufacture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Grinding a glass block to make lenses for giant telescopes

Light, c1850. Educational plate showing reflection and refraction, light travelling in straight lines, a burning mirror (13) and Newtons prism experiment (27). (Wurtemberg, Germany c1850)

Descartes explanation of vision, 1692. Light rays being passed through the eye, being focused by the lens (I) and forming images T, S, R on the retina

Portrait photographers studio, c1880. The photographer, with his head under a black cloth, is focusing on his sitter. He is using a plate camera on a tripod

Photographers studio, c1895. The photogapher is focusing on his sitters. Above is a bank of arc lights. The use of bright artificial light meant that exposure times could be reduced to a few seconds

Portrait photography as a fitting career for a young woman, 1884. A female photographer uses a plate camera on a tripod to take a childs portrait in her studio

Frontispiece from Athanasius Kirchers Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae. To the left is a woman as the personification of the sun, with the symbols of the zodiac covering her body

Battle of Lens, 28 August 1648 (19th century). Artist: Pierre Franque
Battle of Lens, 28 August 1648 (19th century). Depiction of the Battle of Lens, the final large-scale engagement of the Thirty Years War

Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c1890-1915
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century. Fabre (1823-1915), author of numerous books on the anatomy and behaviour of insects

Camera obscura, c1840. The illustration shows how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees (B), passed through a meniscus lens between F and C

Camera obscura, 1855. Drawing a landscape using a portable camera obscura in the form of a tent. From The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner. (London, 1855)

Seaside visitors paying a visit to the camera obscura, 1862. The viewers sat in a darkened chamber: the scene around was collected by the mirror (A) and passed through a convex lens (B)

Felix Faure, President of the Republic, in the Mines at Lens, 1898. Artist: F Meaulle
Felix Faure, President of the Republic, in the Mines at Lens, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 11th December 1898

Ernst Abbe (1840-1905), German physicist. Abbe conducted research in the field of optics. He was a partner in the famous firm Carl Zeiss of Jena, manufacturers of lenses

John Dollond, optician, c1750. Artist: Posselwhite
John Dollond, optician, c1750. Pictured with a book with an overhanging leaf with ther word Opticks on it. Dolland became known for his invention of the achromatic lens

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