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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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 The Holy Kinship, attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans (1460-1495), ca. 1495. Seated at bottom left is St Anne, the Virgin’s mother, and to the right of her is Mary with the Christ Child on her lap. Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Click to visit their website.) |
 Alexander Mavrokordatos, (1791-1865), Greek philosopher, color lithograph, Aegean Maritime Museum, Mykonos Island, Greece |
 Eyeglasses marked “Bird” with advertisement for John Bird, Collections of the Charleston Museum. However, “it is uncertain if Bird in fact made the glasses”. |
 Dr. Simon Baruch (1840-1921), Civil War physician for the Confederacy; the first surgeon to successfully operate on a ruptured appendix. Later he fathered four children, including the financier and Presidential adviser, Bernard M. Baruch, Courtesy of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim |
 Hemessen, Jan Sanders van, St Jerome, oil on panel, 103 x 81 cm, at the Rockox House, Antwerp. Courtesy of Dr. Emil Kren and http://www.wga.hu/index1.html |
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