C.C. Harrison & Joseph Schnitzer Globe Lens *

Very rare American Globe lens with stops wheel, approx. 10" focal length, the lens covers 90 degrees. In original, good condition, optics showing some cleaning marks, unlike the earlier Sutton water-filled lens, the Globe Lens focused on a flat field. On June 17, 1862, C. C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York received a patent for the "Globe Lens" (U.S. 35.605) in which two deeply-curved, cemented doublets were arranged about a central stop in such a way that the exterior surfaces formed a sphere. Charles C. Harrison was a daguerreotypist, camera maker, and inventor, he began manufacturing high-quality cameras about 1849 and known to have made daguerreotype apparatus in 1854-1855 at White & Elm Sts.. He died Nov.23, 1864.