Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compound monocular is a Spencer Model 44 with coarse and fine focus, curved arm, triple nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, Y-shaped base, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscription reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA / 49300.” The serial number indicates a date of 1918.
label: Description
content: The Spencer Lens Co. boasted in 1920 that the No. 44 was “the most popular of all Spencer Microscopes. Thousands are now in daily use in medical and general laboratories, also by physicians.” In 1930, the No. 44 was “the most popular of all Spencer microscopes for routine work in the laboratory of the hospital, medical school, or general practitioner.” It was “simple in design and durable in construction,” and “fully meets all standard requirements.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Microscopes, Microtomes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1920), pp. 32-33.
label: Description
content: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalogue</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1930), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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: Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11423
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: M-11423
label: catalog number
content: 260035.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 12 13/16 in x 6 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 32.54375 cm x 17.145 cm x 20.0025 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 11 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in x 6 in; 28.575 cm x 11.1125 cm x 15.24 cm