Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with electric light that can be hand-held or mounted on a stand. The inscription reads “Ernst Leitz / Wetzlar / No 268749.” This serial number indicates a date around 1928.
label: Description
content: This is an example of the firm’s Large Skin Capillary (LC) microscope, with a stage designed to hold a human finger steady enough for observations. It was probably owned by Bruno Kisch (1890-1966), a Jewish physician from Czechoslovakia who came to the United States during the Holocaust. Dr. Kisch was a professor at Yale, and a founding president of the American College of Cardiology. His widow gave his papers to the Smithsonian in 1971; they are now in the N.M.A.H. Archives Center.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
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: Gift of Ruth Kisch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0065.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0065.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 12 in; 26.19375 cm x 9.04875 cm x 30.48 cm