Telescope
notes: label: Description
content: This telescope came from Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. It has a 2¾ inch achromatic objective, a brass tube 45 inches long, a finder scope, several eyepieces (terrestrial and celestial), and a mahogany case with brass hardware.
label: Description
content: The Baldwin Institute, established by John Baldwin in 1845, was a Methodist school that admitted students without regard for race or gender. It became Baldwin University in 1853. It merged with the nearby Wallace College in 1913 to become Baldwin-Wallace College. It became Baldwin Wallace University in 2012.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Baldwin-Wallace College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0386.005
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0386.005
label: accession number
content: 1985.0386
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope (refracting)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 5 3/4 in x 48 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 123.825 cm x 21.59 cm