Avogadro
name: label: owner and assembler
content: Johnson, Treat B.
label: manufacturer
content: A. T. Thompson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two wooden boxes containing glass lantern slides used by Treat Baldwin Johnson (1875-1947), a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School who became a professor of chemistry at Yale University. One inscription reads “GIVEN IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR TREAT B. JOHNSON BY MRS TREAT B. JOHNSON.” Another reads “A. T. THOMPSON & CO. MNFRS 26 BROMFIELD ST. BOSTON.” Albert T. Thompson began in business in Boston in 1871, making and selling stereopticons, lantern slides, etc.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hubert Bradford Vickery, “Treat Baldwin Johnson,” National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs (1952).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1177.01.01.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.1177
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1177.01.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Slides (2 Boxes of 50 Slides Each)
label: Object Name
content: slide
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box 2: 12.1 cm x 34 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 3/4 in x 13 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: box 1: 11.5 cm x 32.2 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 1/2 in x 12 11/16 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: each slide: 4 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 10.795 cm x 31.75 cm