Opera glasses fragment damaged in Chicago Fire, 1871
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- Description
Half a pair of opera glasses made of black metal. Metal is badly damaged, entire right eye-piece is missing along with some of the nose bridge, and the rest has numerous small holes.
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Artifacts (object genre)
Opera glasses
Great Fire (1871 : Chicago, Ill.)
Disasters
Fragments (object portions)
Fires (events) - Location
- United States
Chicago (Ill.) - Type
- physical object
- Format
- Height: (1.25 in)Width: (2.1875 in)Depth: (3 in)Metal
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2016, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Opera glasses fragment damaged in Chicago Fire, 1871. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1657. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Opera glasses fragment damaged in Chicago Fire, 1871. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1657
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/1657>.