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  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: a work table and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • A mirror maker in his workshop, with convex mirrors on display and two customers trying out hand-held mirrors. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Schenau.
  • Mirrors: a work table and other equipment for making tinted looking-glasses. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Mirrors: a work table for silvering glass (above), and other equipment (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: a tinted mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Helio throat treatment, Cresson Sanatorium, Pennsylvania: a nurse is shown watching two tuberculosis patients holding out their tongues, while sunlight is reflected into their mouths by means of small mirrors (?). Photograph, 1920/1940?.