Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Marc-Antoine Gaudin (1804-1880) was a French scientist and photographer who developed simple microscopes with rock crystal lenses. This example ofa Gaudin-type magnifier belonged to Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a parasitologist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.174919.31
label: catalog number
content: 174919.31
label: accession number
content: 174919
label: catalog number
content: M-09746
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 3/16 in; 2.54 cm x 3.01625 cm