Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Heath, Laban
notes: label: Description
content: Small magnifying glass in a metal frame that, according to the text on its cardboard box, was designed “For examining bank notes, minerals, flowers, seeds, linen, etc., etc.” It was designed and sold by Laban Heath (1837-1894), a New England engraver who specialized in detecting counterfeit currency. This was collected by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: Laban Heath, “Stand for Magnifying Glass,” U.S. Patent 198542 (Dec. 25, 1877).
label: Description
content: Laban Heath, <i>Heath’s Infallible Government Counterfeit Detector</i> (Boston, 1878).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09745
label: accession number
content: 174919
label: catalog number
content: M-09745
label: catalog number
content: 174919.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm x 2.8575 cm