Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Heavy brass compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, square mechanical stage, trunnion, sub-stage mirror, V-shaped base, and wooden box with eyepieces and objectives. On one piece an image of a globe is placed between the words “TRADE MARK” and an image of an open eye.
label: Description
content: The paper tag reading “Dissecting Microscopes / Property of R. Rathbun” may refer to Richard Rathbun (1852-1918), Smithsonian scientist and Under-Secretary. Note, however, that this is not a dissecting microscope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: St. Mary's Funeral Home
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.243712.01
label: catalog number
content: 243712.01
label: catalog number
content: M-10349
label: accession number
content: 243712
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 22.225 cm x 18.415 cm