Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Spencer Model 58S is a binocular dissecting microscope with goose neck arm, rack-and-pinion focus, and wrought iron horseshoe base. The form was new in 1917. This example dates from around 1923. The eyepiece is marked “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA / 79239” and the stage is missing.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Products</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1917), pp. 62-63.
label: Description
content: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Products</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1924), p. 38.
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 Mineralogy and Petrology, United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09798
label: accession number
content: 226637
label: catalog number
content: M-09798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Binocular; Compound; Dissecting Microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: casting (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: machining (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 21.3 cm x 14.6 cm x 20 cm; 8 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in