Camera filter and lens used by Hitler's personal photographer

Object | Accession Number: 2011.432.9

Overview

Brief Narrative: Camera filter and detachable Zeiss lens used by Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler's personal photographers before and during World War II (1939-1945). The filter and lens are part of a collection that highlights the Nazi rise to power leading up to and during the war. The materials include photographic equipment and accessories, 50 color slides, and a leaflet written by Frank R. Eisner entitled "Shadows of the Past", which describes the slides.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fern M. Schad
Markings: lens, beveled face, engraved : Carl Zeiss Jena Proxar 2 X 28,5 Nr 467881
Contributor: Photographer: Hugo Jaeger
Subject: Hugo Jaeger
Manufacturer: Zeiss Ikon AG

Physical Details

Language: German
Classification: Audiovisual and Photographic Materials
Category: Cameras
Object Type: Light filters (lcsh)
Physical Description: Circular, yellow, flat, glass filter mounted in a silver-colored metal ring with a beveled inner face and a flat rim with ridged sides. The base has flat sides and three evenly-spaced, tension prongs. The interior is also flat with a ledge to support the piece of glass and hold it in place. The filter is fitted to the top of a detachable, circular, convex, clear glass lens mounted in a brown-painted, metal ring with a beveled inner face and narrow ridged rim. The base has flat sides and three evenly-spaced, prongs. Manufacturing information is engraved around the beveled face of the ring. Use has worn the paint away on portions of the exterior.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
Materials: overall : glass, metal, paint

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Photographers--Germany--Biography.
Geographic Name: Germany--History--1933-1945--Pictorial works. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
Corporate Name: Nazi Party

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The camera filter and lens were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Fern M. Schad.

Record last modified:: 2023-08-31 10:43:59
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