Case for Ophthalmoscope
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this instrument case reads “Liebreich’s Ophthalmoscope.” Richard Liebreich (1830-1917) was a German-Jewish ophthalmologist who, while working for Hermann von Helmholtz in the early 1850s, saw an early example of his ophthalmoscope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.314016.230.01
label: accession number
content: 314016
label: catalog number
content: 314016.230.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: aubergine (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm x 13.6 cm x 6.2 cm; 3/4 in x 5 11/32 in x 2 7/16 in