Microscope
date: label: date made
content: early 1900s
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, large square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and horseshoe base, as well as a bulls-eye condenser, extra objectives, and wooden box. The inscription reads “E. Leitz Wetzlar / No 57086 / Filiale New-York.” A metal plate on the box reads “E. Leitz. Wetzlar. / New York / 411. W. 59. Str.” Dr. Edmond Cooper used this microscope while in medical school, as did his father before him. It is a Leitz Stand Ib that dates from the early 1900s.
label: Description
content: Ludwig Leitz and William Krafft, both of Wetzlar, came to the United States in 1893, and Krafft began in business as a microscope importer at 30 E. 23rd St., New York. The firm became Ernst Leitz Microscopes at that address in 1903, and moved to 411 W. 59th St. in 1904.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Leitz, <i>Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus</i> (Wetzlar, 1903), pp. 34-35.
label: Description
content: Microscope Users:
label: Description
content: Dr. James Monroe Cooper (1877- 1923) received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1903. After graduating, he worked for a year under Dean Victor Vaughan on the Typhoid Commission (investigating the incidence of typhoid during the Spanish American War). He completed an internship at the New York ear and eye hospital and in 1906 established a practice in Detroit, Michigan, as a specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose, throat. He had three sons including Edmond L. (Lloyd) Cooper (1907-1997), the donor of this microscope, who graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1933.
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: Dr. Edmond L. Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.287712
label: catalog number
content: M-12986
label: accession number
content: 287712
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass; steel; glass; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 14 1/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 17.4625 cm x 18.0975 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 12 1/4 in x 4 in x 5 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 10.16 cm x 13.97 cm