Microscope
date: label: date made
content: around 1930
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Compound binocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, triple nose-piece, inclination joint, large square mechanical stage, sub-stage diaphragm, and original case. The inscription on the stand reads: “E. LEITZ / WETZLAR / GERMANY.” The inscription on the eyepiece assembly reads “Ernst Leitz / Wetzlar.” There are four Leitz objectives (No. 3, 10X; 6L 45X; 3.5; and 1/12 oil immersion). There are four eyepieces (two 10X and two 6X) marked “Ernst Leitz Wetzlar”; an unsigned eyepiece is marked simply 5X. There is an electrical lamp for illumination. The 290968 serial number indicates a date around 1930.
label: Description
content: This was owned and used by Henry Eugene Hampton (born 1900), a graduate of Fisk University and the Meharry Medical College who practiced medicine and surgery in St. Louis, Mo., and who served as the first medical director of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital from 1937 to 1941.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Leitz, Inc., <i>Catalogue</i> (New York, 1938), pp. 44-45.
label: Description
content: “The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital,” Journal of the National Medical Association 53 (1961): 541-555.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jacob Ben Zimmerman and Judith Hampton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0011.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0011
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0011.01
label: serial number
content: 290968
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope