Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1930
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This small compound monocular is a Spencer Model 75, a “Real Pocket Microscope” designed for that “large class of scientists” who wished to carry a microscope into the field. It has a push-pull focus, square stage, sub-stage mirror, and metal case. The inscription on the tube reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA.” That on the box reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA / 194.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Products </i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1924), p. 43.
label: Description
content: Oscar W. Richards, “A Small Spencer Folding Pocket Microscope,” <i>Microscope</i> 27 (1979): 1-3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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: Oscar W. Richards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.2420.05
label: catalog number
content: 1978.2420.05
label: accession number
content: 1978.2420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 4 1/16 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 10.31875 cm x 6.35 cm