1942 Carl Lange Stereoscopic Opthomological "Coordinator" Slides - Set 1 whale pattern created not so much to

created not so much to be artful as to serve a function

and rather brilliantly painted to look positively ancient and very armadillo-like

Signed in pencil on the underside with what looks like Eleanns (

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1942 Carl Lange Stereoscopic Opthomological "Coordinator" Slides - Set 1 whale pattern created not so much toI was pretty excited to find a box full of these handmade slides at the flea market this weekend a box in which many were rolled up in a St. Louis newspaper from 1945, seemingly untouched since then! What I've learned is that Carl W. Lange Sr. and Jr. , who copyrighted this set of stereoscopic slides in 1942, were father and son opthomologists with a practice near St. Louis and a particular commitment to curing myopia (nearsightedness.) They wrote and