Telescope (Spyglass)
notes: label: Description
content: This small brass draw-tube telescope has 7 sections. The "C. Duhamel / Optician / New Orleans" engraved on the smallest section refers to Clement Duhamel (1817-1871), an immigrant from France who opened a shop in New Orleans. Newspaper ads indicated that the Duhamel business was still going in 1880.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.313645
label: catalog number
content: 313645
label: accession number
content: 191191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 3.4925 cm