Historic Hood River
W. F. Laraway, Doctor of Ophthalmology
10-16-2024
Notes
This advertisement for W. F. Laraway’s services prescribing and grinding eyeglasses is from The Hood River Glacier March 14, 1912 edition. The apparatus he is using is very impressive! It’s not quite clear how it works, but it sure looks like the patient is getting value for their money.
Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: advertisement, eyeglasses, Hood River Glacier, Laraway, newspaper
Tags: advertisement, eyeglasses, Hood River Glacier, Laraway, newspaper
Will
Arthur: do you know if jeweler/ophthalmologist were common crossover occupations back then?
Judy
2000 fitted in she? The whole town was wearing glasses! 😄
Judy
I meant HR —-
Arthur Babitz
I was thinking the same thing Judy.
ArthurB
Don’t have any info on whether jeweler and ophthalmologist were common crossovers. Kind of makes sense since they use similar tools, but I don’t have any other examples.
JEC
The instrument being used in the illustration appears to be a very early keratometer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratometer
one of similar vintage is shown at 3:00 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDca3AXscwk