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Curator, David A. Fleishman M.D. |
The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
April 6, 2006 Wall Street
Journal featured antiquespectacles.com
on the front page. |
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Institutions Which Acknowledge Historical Aspects of Antique Vision Aids
Anaglyph glasses, not signed but likely of French production, circa
1870, Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Florence (Foundation of Science and
Technology). These pince nez allow one to see tri-dimensionally an image
made of two images, also coloured.
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Leather case housing very rare spectacles, circa 1700, Science Museum,
London |
An Old Lady with a Book, oil on canvas, 1637, Rembrandt van Rijn and
Workshop, Dutch 1606-1669, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.73,
National Gallery of Art (Click to visit their website.) |
Silver round frame, double turn-pin sides, so that it wraps all around
the head, maker - Harris Holbein, circa 1830s, Museum and Library of the
Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, quite unusual |
Steel round frame spectacles, very wide bridge, sinuous sides, circular
finials with pads, circa 1820, very rare |
- Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine
- Aegean Maritime Museum, Mykonos Island, Greece
- akg-images (formerly
known as "Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte"), Berlin Germany
- Arabia Steamboat Museum,
Kansas City, MO
- The Bakkehus
Museum (Bakkehusmuseet), Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Banca Popolare of Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
- Bar Harbor
Historical Society, Bar Harbor, Maine
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Basilica of San Pietro, Vatican City State
- Bayernhof
Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
- Beethoven-Haus,
Bonn, Germany
- Belle Grove
Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
- Benjamin Franklin Institute
of Technology, Boston
- Berkshire County
Historical Society, Pittsfield, MA
- Berkshire
Museum, Pittsfield, MA
- Blair Castle,
Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, United Kingdom
- Blicheregnens Museum, Kjellerup, Denmark
- Bowers Museum of
Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA
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The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
- Brontë Parsonage
Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire, UK
- Budapest History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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Canadian Museum
of Civilization, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
- Carlyle’s House,
Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
- Carpenter
Museum, Rehoboth, MA
- Cartoon Art Museum,
San Francisco, CA
- Casa di
Carlo Goldoni, Venice, Italy
- Centro
Studi Antoniani, Padova, Italy
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Channel 4's 'Time Team', London
- The Charleston Museum, Charleston,
South Carolina
- Chimayo Museum,
Chimayo, NM
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Christian Museum, Esztergom, Hungary
- Church of the
Holy Trinity (La Mattarella), Cappella Maggiore, Treviso, Italy
- Cliveden of the
National Trust, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
- Cologne Cathedral
Workshop, Köln, Germany (Link#1)
- Cologne Cathedral
Workshop, Köln, Germany (Link#2)
- County Museum of
Gotland, Visby, Sweden
- Department of
Labor and Social Matters (Immigration), Madrid, Spain
- Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany
- Deutsches
Medizin Historisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany
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The
Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
- Dittrick Medical History Center, Cleveland, Ohio
- C.W. Dixey & Son, London, UK
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Dresden City Museum, Dresden, Germany
- Dyer Memorial Library (Historical
Society of Old Abington), Abington, MA
- East Ayrshire
Council Arts and Museums Service, Scotland, UK
- George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
- English
Heritage (Down House- Downe, Kent), UK
- Edison
National Historic Site, National Park Service, Glenmont, West Orange, NJ
- Emily Dickinson Museum,
Amherst, MA
- The Fan Museum, Greenwich, London,
United Kingdom
- Fenimore Art
Museum/New York State Historical Association and The Farmers' Museum,
Cooperstown, NY
- Ford
Museum and Theater Historic Site, Washington, DC
- Fort Sumter
National Monument, National Park Service, Charlestown, SC
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Fortress of Louisbourg N.H.S.C. Parks Canada
- Frank H. McClung
Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, PA
- The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
- Freud Museum, London,
United Kingdom
- Fronteira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
- German Leather
Museum, Offenbach, Germany
- George
Washington Birthplace National Monument, National Park Service Washington's
Birthplace, VA
- Glidden House
Inn, Cleveland, Ohio
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Green Gable Heritage Place Cavendish, PEI, Canada
- The Griswold Inn -
Goods & Curiosities, Essex, CT
- Haus Der Musik, Vienna, Austria
- The Henry Ford,
Dearborn
- Herning Museum,
Herning, Denmark
- Hildene, Manchester,
Vermont
- Historic
Northampton Museum & Education Center, Northampton, MA
- Historic
Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Hungarian Sports Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Vienna, Austria
- International Museum of
Surgical Science (IMSS)
- Edward Jenner
Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Fondazione Cassa
di Risparmio di Modena
- Harding Home State Memorial, Ohio Historical Society, Marion, OH
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Hughenden
Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Senator John Heinz
Pittsburgh History Center, Pittsburgh, PA
- Independence
National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA
- The Jewish Genealogy
Association
- Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim,
Charleston, SC
- Kalmar Läns
Museum, Kalmar, Sweden
- Karl-Sudhoff-Institut, Leipzig, Germany
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Kaunas 9th
Fort Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
- King Center for
Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta, GA
- Lacock
Abbey of the National Trust, Lacock, UK
- Lake Champlain Maritime
Museum, Vergennes, VT
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Louisa May
Alcott's Orchard House, Concord, MA
- Luxottica Museum, Agordo, Italy
- Mariner’s Museum,
Newport News, VA
- Maritime
Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax Nova Scotia
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Maritime Museum of Thera, Oai, Santorini, Greece
- Maritime Museum of
Zeeland, Vlissingen, Netherlands
- MacArthur
Memorial, Norfolk, Virginia
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Massachusetts
Judicial Archives, Boston, MA
- Ministry of the Interior, Rome, Italy
- Minnesota
Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
- Morikami Museum and
Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL
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Moyse’s Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk,
United Kingdom
- Municipal Museum of the Ancient Greek
Technology in Katakolo, Greece
- Musée
Alsacien, Strasbourg, France
- Musée de Cluny,
Musée National du Moyen Âge, (National Museum of the Middle Ages), Paris
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- de l’Armee,
Paris, France
- Musée de la Civilisation,
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Musee des Amis de Thann, Thann, France
- Musée des arts
asiatiques Guimet, Paris, France
- Musée des
Ursulines de Québec, Québec, Canada
- Musée du
Conservatoire de Musique, Paris
- Musée National
de la Renaissance, Ecouen, France
- Museo Correr,
Venice, Italy
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Museo
Diocesano de Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain
- Museo Sefardí,
Toledo, Spain
- Museum and Library of the Royal College of
Ophthalmologists, London
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Museum
Brouwershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Museum Kiscelli, Budapest, Hungary
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Museum of Offida, Offida, Italy
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Museum of the Ancient Near East in the Pergamon Museum,
Berlin, Germany
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Museum of Ansembourg, Liège Belgium
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Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin
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Museum of Decorative Arts,
Prague, Czech Republic
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Museum of the History of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Museum of
London
- Museum of London Archeological Services
- Museum of
History & Industry, Seattle, WA
- Museum
of the Mountain Man, Sublette County Historical Society Inc, Pinedale, WY
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Museum
of Popular Art and Customs, Seville, Spain
- Museum of
World War II, Natick, MA
- Museum
Waldenburg, Waldenburg, Germany
- Musikalienarchiv
St. Peter, Salzburg, Austria
- Natal Museum,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- National
Army Museum, London, UK
- The National Board of
Antiquities Archives for Print and Photographs, Helsinki, Finland
- National Gandhi
Museum, New Delhi, India
- The National Italian
American Sports Hall of Fame, Chicago, IL
- National
Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, UK
- National Museum of Health & Medicine Silver Spring, MD
- National Museum of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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National Museum
of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
- National Museums Liverpool, UK
- National
Plastics Center, Leominster, MA
- National Technical Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
- National
Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA
- New Bedford
Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
- Nordiska Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden
- Norman Rockwell Museum,
Stockbridge, MA
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North Carolina
Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC
- Odense City Museums/ Hans
Christian Andersen Museum, Odense, Denmark
- Ohio Historical
Society, Columbus, Ohio
- Old Sydney Society,
Sydney, Nova Scotia
- Ostfriesisches
Teemuseum, Norden, Germany
- Parks Canada,
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
- Patten
Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Ft. Knox, Kentucky
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
- PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Penn Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
- Pilgrim
Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA
- Pioneer Memorial
Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
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The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, RI
- Public Design Commission of the City of New York, New York, NY
- Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas
- Renaissance Society of
America, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of
New York, New York, NY
- Rhode Island Historical
Society, Providence, Rhode Island
- Rochester Museum & Science
Center, Rochester, NY
- Theodore
Roosevelt Birthplace, New York, NY
- Royal Armoury in
the Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
- Royal Commission on
the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Royal Institution of
Great Britain, London, UK
- The Royal Society,
London, UK
-
Sainsbury
African Gallery, British Museum, London, UK
- Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TX
- San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park, San Francisco, CA
- Scala Theatre Museum, Milan, Italy
- Scituate
Historical Society, Scituate, MA
-
Scuola
Grande di San Rocco, Venice, Italy
- Sedona Historical Society
- Marcella Sembrich
Opera Museum, Bolton Landing, NY
- Semmelweis Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Seoul National
University Medical School Museum, South Korea
- Shadows on the
Teche, New Iberia, LA
- Skokloster
Castle, Sweden
- Società Siciliana
per la Storia Patria-Palermo
- Society of
California Pioneers, San Francisco, CA
- Soldier’s
and Sailor’s Memorial, Cleveland, Ohio
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Stadtarchaologe, Stadt Lueneburg
- Star Spangled Banner Flag House Museum,
Baltimore, MD
- State Museum of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, PA
- Tennessee State Museum,
Nashville, TN
- The Mount, Lenox,
Massachusetts
- Toy Worlds Museum Basel Basel, Switzerland
- University of Padua, Padua,
Italy
- USS
Constitution Museum, Boston MA
- Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
- Valley Forge
National Historical Park, King of Prussia, PA
- Vatican Museums, Vatican City State
- Villa San
Michele, Anacapri, Italy
- Waddesdon Manor,
Waddesdon, Nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Wartburg-Stiftung
Eisenach, Eisenach, Germany
- Wessex Archaeology,
Salisbury, Wilts
- Wheaton College,
Norton, MA
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, UK
- Wilton
House, The Estate Office, Wilton, Salisbury, UK
- Woodrow
Wilson House, Washington, DC
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Worcestershire County Museum, Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury
Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK
- York County
Heritage Trust, York, PA
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