Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Nickel-plated dissecting microscope with a sub-stage mirror, heavy black base, removable hand rests, wooden box, and a “CARL ZEISS / JENA” inscription. The Zeiss firm began in 1846 and produced their 1000th microscope in 1866. The “8947” serial number on this example suggests a date of around 1875.
label: Description
content: This microscope belonged to Eugene Amandus Schwarz (1844-1928), a German entomologist who arrived in the United States in 1876, worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and served as honorary curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl Zeiss, <i>Microscopes and Microscopical Accessories</i> (Jena, 1891), pp. 100-103.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
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: H.S. Barber, Executor of the Estate of Dr. Eugen Amandus Schwarz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.162080.01
label: catalog number
content: M-09781
label: accession number
content: 162080
label: catalog number
content: 162080.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 12.4 cm x 7.5 cm x 8.7 cm; 4 7/8 in x 2 15/16 in x 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 17 cm x 12.6 cm x 11.8 cm; 6 11/16 in x 4 15/16 in x 4 5/8 in