Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: Stereoscopic microscope with coarse and fine focus, triple revolving nosepiece, square glass stage, inclination joint, U-shaped base, and a “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA.” inscription. The 154908 serial number indicates a date of 1939. Oscar W. Richards (1902-1988), the donor, was a biologist and microscopist who worked with the Spencer Lens Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Spencer Stereoscopic Microscopes</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1939), pp. 2-3.
label: Description
content: Spencer Lens Co. ad in <i>Science</i> 91 (April 12, 1940): 6-7.
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: Gift of Oscar W. Richards, Ph.D
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0500.182
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0500.182
label: accession number
content: 1986.0500
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 cm x 13.2 cm x 19.8 cm; 14 15/16 in x 5 3/16 in x 7 13/16 in