Camera and lens
- Museum number:
- 2-72025a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210272025a@2cb
- Accession number:
- Acc.4725
- Object count:
- 2
- Description:
- Lens for 8”x10” Field View Camera [2-72024], 1898 vintage. (a) wood mounting with permanently attached brass barrel lens, (b) leather, plush lined, lens cap. Made by C.P. Goerz, Germany. Base: 11.5cm x 11.5cm. Lens: H=5.5cm. Lens cover: D=6.0cm.
- Donor:
- Anthropology (UC Berkeley)
- Collection place:
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Anthropology and Art Practice building, UC Berkeley
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Culture or time period:
- United States Historic
- Materials:
- Brass (alloy), Glass (material), Leather, and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Cameras (photographic equipment) and Photographic lenses (camera components)
- Function:
- 1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
- Accession date:
- November 8, 2001
- Context of use:
- Lens is a Goerz Dagor f:6.8 lens, US Patent #528155, Series III #5; Focus 10 3/4 inches. Serial: # 221015.
- Department:
- Nonnative US and Canada (except California)