Object Details
- Description
- Using lenses like the Globe Wide-Angle Lens, photographers were able to visually record the war. In the words of Mathew Brady, the camera was now "the eye of history."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Schnitzer, Joseph
- date made
- 1860
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 4 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 12.065 cm
- Object Name
- lens
- Other Terms
- lens; Still
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