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This Isn't a pipe organ. This pipe-organ appearing device in reality is a super-sensitive lens-testing camper [camera?] in the U.S. Bureau of Standards where the government tests products before they are purchased. F.A. Case of the scientific staff is placing a lens in the tester. Dr. I.C. Garnder [
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This Isn't a pipe organ. This pipe-organ appearing device in reality is a super-sensitive lens-testing camper [camera?] in the U.S. Bureau of Standards where the government tests products before they are purchased. F.A. Case of the scientific staff is placing a lens in the tester. Dr. I.C. Garnder [

Harris & Ewing · 1934 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineThis Isn't a pipe organ. This pipe-organ appearing device in reality is a super-sensitive lens-testing camper [camera?] in the U.S. Bureau of Standards where the government tests products before they . 1934. Harris & Ewing. Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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