Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1899
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This Continental microscope is a heavy compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, trunnion, circular mechanical stage, and Lister limb with elaborate sub-stage condenser and sub-stage mirror. The inscriptions on the horseshoe base read “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / NEW YORK ROCHESTER CHICAGO” and “25908.”
label: Description
content: The florid inscription on the tube reads “G. V. BLACK / Presented / by the CLASS OF ’99 / and / The Alumni Association of the Northwestern University / DENTAL SOCIETY / March 1899.” Greene Vardiman Black (1836-1915) was the second dean of the Northwestern University Dental School.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes, Microtomes, and Apparatus for Photo-Micrography</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1896), pp. 26-27.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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: Mrs. George L. Dreman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11505
label: catalog number
content: M-11505
label: accession number
content: 263971
label: catalog number
content: 263971.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope, compound
label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope, compound; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 8 7/16 in x 9 1/16 in; 40.005 cm x 21.43125 cm x 23.01875 cm