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Artifact Name	Eyeglasses and Case
Type of Object	Eyeglasses
Manufacturer	Hall Optical Co.
Place of Manufacture	Richmond (Va.)
Date of Manufacture	1920-1950
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	6 cm. x 15 cm. x 1.5 cm.
Physical Details	Pair of tortoiseshell eyeglasses in a snap closure leather case. Two round, concave lenses, made of glass and intended for magnification fit into a yellow and brown tortoiseshell frame. Frame is heavily degraded, left lens is loose and frame is crumbling. Outside of leather case is stamped: "Hall Optical Co., Inc. Norfolk VA Richmond"
Medical Subject	Eyeglasses
Accession Number	1982.101e
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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