Details
Creator Bausch and Lomb Optical Co.
Title Franklin Bifocal Sesquicentennial, 1784-1934, Medal.
Date 1934
Physical Description Bronze ; 2 1/2 inches (diameter).
Notes Profile of Franklin holding bifocals in his hand. Back states, “Commemorating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s Invention of the Bifocal Lens in 1784.”
Gift of Donald Oresman, 2000.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Bifocal lenses.
Medals.
Genre Commemorative medal.
Location OBJ 855
Accession number OBJ 855