Globe Wide-Angle Lens
- 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
- date made
- 1860
- maker
- Schnitzer, Joseph
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 4 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 12.065 cm
- ID Number
- PG.4211E
- accession number
- 158846
- catalog number
- 4211E
- subject
- Civil War
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Photographic History
- Civil War
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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