Objects
Using a focimeter at the Melson Wingate Ltd factory
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Dorset, Bournemouth
1950
photographic paper; cardboard
mount: 228 mm x 302 mm; print: 205 mm x 150 mm
2024.691
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Dorset, Bournemouth
1950
photographic paper; cardboard
mount: 228 mm x 302 mm; print: 205 mm x 150 mm
Black and white photograph of a male worker operating a Keeler focimeter (Vertex Dioptrescope) to measure a partly cut spectacle lens at the Melson Wingate Ltd factory, 'Crookes' Optical Works Ltd' at 31 Abbott Road, Bournemouth. Printed, portrait format, on glossy photographic paper fixed to a grey cardboard album page mount.
2024.691
Gift of Mr Nigel Wingate, 2024