Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1923
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Spencer Model 1 is a convertible microscope that can be used as a monocular or a binocular. It has coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, large circular mechanical stage, trunnion, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box. This example belonged to Robert Meyer Leonard (1923-1991), a professor of pharmacology at George Washington University. The inscription on the tube reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / U.S.A.” The “85421 serial number indicates a date of 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Products</i> (Buffalo, 1924), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.53.1
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.53.1
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 17.1 cm x 21.6 cm; 12 in x 6 23/32 in x 8 1/2 in