Binoculars
notes: label: Description
content: Folding binoculars made by the Porto-Sight Co. of Kansas City, Mo. The form was on the market by 1947. This set belonged to Paul Sydney Conger, Jr. (1897-1979), a botanist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History who specialized in diatoms.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Glasses Fold,” Popular Science (Feb. 1948): 225.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Norman E. Conger and Dr. Alice Conger Patterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0128.38.05
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0128.38.05
label: accession number
content: 1995.0128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Binocular Field Glass
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 3.3 cm x 3.3 cm; 3 3/4 in x 1 5/16 in x 1 5/16 in