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Optical Devices
Beginning with the camera obscura and camera lucida, this collection includes over 50 examples of rare pre-cinema devices together with the prints and photographs made for their use including a megalethoscope, zograscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope, and more. Examples of transformation prints, panoramas, myriopticons, and other optical toys are also collected.
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Graphic Arts
For an online checklist of optical devices housed in Graphic Arts, see Optical Devices on Display, Department of Special Collections, 2012. A number of the Opitical Devices are on display on C floor.
Research Tools for Printed Material (Books, Maps, Prints, etc.)
Additional Research Guides
- Checklist of Optical Devices