Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1890
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), noted physician and author, designed this microscope stand for use in the classes he taught at the Harvard Medical School. It was light-weight, rugged, and relatively-inexpensive, and could be passed from one student to another. It was introduced in 1875, proved fairly popular, and remained on the market for about fifteen years.
label: Description
content: A comparison of contemporary advertisements and extant examples shows several minor variations. In our example, the wooden base is shaped like an elongated figure-eight, and the microscope stands on an oval riser. The lamp is missing. A brass tag on the base is inscribed “James W. Queen & Co. / Philadelphia New York” and “Holmes.”
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments </i> (Philadelphia, 1883), p. 112.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Rutgers University, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.327631
label: accession number
content: 268279
label: catalog number
content: 327631
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 26.6 cm x 10.5 cm x 30 cm; 10 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 11 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 29.2 cm x 18.3 cm x 33.1 cm; 11 1/2 in x 7 3/16 in x 13 1/16 in