Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1890
name: label: maker
content: Queen, James W.
notes: label: Description
content: Small compound monocular with a push-pull focus, square stage, trunion mount, Lister-limb with sub-stage mirror, and wooden box. An inscription on the dark green base reads “UNIVERSAL HOUSEHOLD MICROSCOPE / JAMES W. QUEEN & Co PHILADELPHIA.” Queen boasted that this inexpensive form was “well calculated not only to amuse but instruct young persons, and thereby foster a taste for the study of Natural History.” But where this example was made, and by whom, we do not know.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1870), p. 35.
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Philadelphia, 1890), pp. 33-35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0795.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0795.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1991.0795
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.1 cm x 7.6 cm x 9.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 3 in x 3 3/4 in