Microscope
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This dissecting microscope is a Spencer Model 82 with simple lens, rack-and-pinion focus, square glass stage, sub-stage mirror, U-shaped base and wooden box. The inscription reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA.” There is no serial number.
label: Description
content: This belonged to Chevalier Q. Jackson (1865-1958), an important American physician and laryngologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Microscopes, Microtomes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1920), p. 59.
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: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joan Jackson Bugbee
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300428.321
label: accession number
content: 300428
label: catalog number
content: 300428.321
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 16.3 cm x 10.8 cm x 13.3 cm; 6 7/16 in x 4 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 18.5 cm x 13.7 cm x 16.3 cm; 7 5/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 6 7/16 in