Westcott Color Test
name: label: used at
content: Skidmore College
label: maker
content: Westcott, Ralph M.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass slide with an inscription that reads “WESTCOTT COLOR BLINDNESS / As Arranged and Made by / C. M. WESTCOTT.” Early notices claimed that the Westcott test “had all the essential features of the Holmgren yarn test but is in a form suitable for testing an entire class at one time.” Clyde M. Westcott (d. 1931) was a high school science teacher in California. The form was available by 1922.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. M. Westcott, “A Modification of the Holmgren Test for Color Blindness,” School Science and Mathematics (1908): 140.
label: Description
content: Ad for the Westcott Color Blindness Test in School Science and Mathematics 22 (1922): 485.
label: Description
content: E. Murray, “Evolution of Color Vision Tests,” Journal of The Optical Society of America 33 (1943): 316-334.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Pyschology Department of Skidmore College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311423.07
label: catalog number
content: 311423.07
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Test, Color
label: Object Name
content: color test
label: Other Terms
content: Test, Color; Psychological Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 4 3/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 11.1125 cm x 9.2075 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 9 cm x 1.5 cm; 4 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 9/16 in