Münsterberg's Photoplays - continued...

Upon closer inspection of the original prints, the photographs offer precise representations of the instruments that Münsterberg had acquired from instrument makers in Europe and the US. One might speak of a non-human lab population that was even more international than the population of humans in his Freiburg lab.

Instruments for Experiments on Sight

Detailed descriptions of some of these instruments are available through the catalogs of the instrument makers that Münsterberg mentions in Appendix B of his catalog. Many of them are part of the holdings of the Virtual Laboratory. In addition, some of these instruments have survived at Harvard and are part of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at the Department of the History of Science.

Interior of a Laboratory Room.

The two images above are clickable and give access to high-resolution scans with interactive features for further exploring individual items. Structured links direct the reader to additional images from trade catalogs, detailed descriptions, and short biographies of instrument makers.