Identity area
Reference code
WAR/05/001
Title
Leiden: photographs and postcards of clocks and their movements, and airpumps
Date(s)
- 1950 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder of loose photographs
Context area
Name of creator
(1905–1990)
Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
English