Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI Search this
Physical description:
[7] pages, [23] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Manuscripts (documents).)
Sources
Date:
1870
1880
Notes:
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 1051
Also available online.
Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI
Elecresource
Summary:
Holograph manuscript signed, detailing modifications in photography to permit accurate, easily taken pictures through a microscope. The photographs include 3 of the equipment and 20 selected from Tedeschi's 160 photographs taken through a microscope ; Spine bears date 1875