Accession No

4397

Brief Description

framed photograph showing Cambridge Instrument Company laboratory technician working on a lens cell for optical bench, originally composed for the front cover of Engineering Magazine, by Walter Nurnberg, English, 1962 (c)

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Nurnberg, Walter

Class

ephemera

Earliest Date

1962

Latest Date

1962

Inscription Date

Material

photographic paper; paper; glass; wood

Dimensions

height 525mm; breadth 423mm

Special Collection

Cambridge Instrument Company Collection

Provenance

Donated by the Cambridge Instrument Company.

Inscription

‘LENS CELL FOR OPTICAL BENCH\
CAMBRIDGE WORKS’ (paper label on mount at bottom LHS of photograph)
‘Photograph by WALTER NURNBERG
for the front cover of
‘ENGINEERING’’ (PAPER LABEL ON mount at BOTTOM RHS OF PHOTOGRAPH)

Description Notes

Framed photograph showing Cambridge Instrument Co. laboratory technician working on a lens cell for optical bench, originally composed for the front cover of Engineering magazine, English, c. 1962

Black and white photograph showing a C.I.C. technician with a lens cell. Mounted and framed. Top left corner of glass missing. Mount stained beneath raw edge. One of a set of 4 photographs taken for the cover of ‘Engineering’.

Condition fair (backing coming off); incomplete (glass broken)

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