Telescope (Spyglass)
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard draw-tube telescope (spyglass) that may date from the eighteenth century. Webster Full, the donor, believed it had been brought out of the Revolutionary War by William Powers, a resident of western Virginia (later West Virginia) who believed it had belonged to his Colonel. One of Powers’ descendants transferred it to Webster Full’s father.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Revolutionary War
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.289592
label: catalog number
content: 289592
label: accession number
content: 59201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (spyglass)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 1 7/16 in; 24.13 cm x 3.65125 cm