Lens Collection (page 2)

Susi - with camera and roll of film. 1950s

Susi - with large camera. 1950s

Lighthouse lantern, 1886. Detail. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Market in Lens Ruins
An impromptu market held in the ruins of Lens after the First World War Date: 9 August 1919

Martians watching scenes of life on Earth
A group of Martians watching scenes of life on Earth through special viewfinders. Date: 1906

Pince nez and blue eyes on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

Dutch boy scouts with signalling equipment, Holland
Two Dutch boy scouts with signalling equipment, Holland

Fighting in Lens, Northern France, 1914
With the French army : a scene during the fighting between French and Germans among the coal trucks of the mining town of Lens in Northern France, 1914. 1914

British range-finder 1918
This diagram explains the usual Britsih method of producing a range chart. It depicts an imaginary landscape behind safe lines under survey prepartory to the possible contingency of an enermy

Advert for Stereoscopic Company
Advert for the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company: the twin-lens artist hand camera as used by HRH Alexandra, the Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII)

German military rocket camera, WW1
A German military rocket camera with a Zeiss lens being fired into the air in the early weeks of the First World War. It was designed to map enemy territory to facilitate invasion

Tactics in a torpedo action by G. H. Davis
What happens inside a British submarine when she sights enermy vessels and attacks with torpedoes. 1943

Triumph in Paris
On the occasion of a victory over the Spanish at Lens, Parisians are treated to a triumphal march as captured flags and arms are carried to Notre-Dame. Date: 1648

Advert for Lancaster & Sons bellows cameras 1886
Advertisement for 19th century bellows cameras with mahogany frames and apparatus. 1886

JOHN LENS Lawyer, serjeant-at-law and commissioner of assize. Date: 1756 - 1825

Frank Greenaway, Science Photographer
Museum photographer Frank Greenaway lighting a gemstone so that the internal structure is captured in a photograph

Watch the Birdie! A female photographer adjusts her camera lens in a park, ready to capture her subject - YOU! Date: 1960s

Wreckage of Max Immelmanns aeroplane, WW1
The wreckage of German air ace Max Immelmanns aeroplane, shot down on 18 June 1916 by 2nd Lieutenant G R McCubbin of the 26th Squadron, RFC, over Annay, near Lens, northern France

Kodak Camera 1930S
Smart cameras have striped fronts this year. At the Kodak works at Wealdstone, England, where these cameras are made, each is tested by a scientist to ensure a needle-sharp focus Date: 1930s

German pillbox WWI
Destroyed German pillbox near Lens in Pas de Calais, France, during World War I

German observation post 1917
A German observation post on the Lens Arras Road on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1917

Smile
A woman with a camera adopts a photographers pose for - another photographer

Camera Obscura
A camera obscura, invented in 1558 by Porta, can be set up in a tent, with a lens and mirror on top and a suitable surface inside onto which the view is projected

Stereoscopic Viewer 19C
A stereoscopic viewer, with a stereoscopic card in place

Bakers Mounted Lens
Bakers mounted lens microscope

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