Microscope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: This seems to be a simple “flower and insect” microscope with a turned ivory handle. It was owned by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09738
label: accession number
content: 174919
label: catalog number
content: M-9738
label: catalog number
content: 174919.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x .9375 cm; 7.62 cm x 3/8 in