Tolles student's microscope
Datecirca 1875
Inventory Number1129
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
Maker
Boston Optical Works
fl. 1867 - 1895
Maker
Robert B. Tolles
1823 - 1883
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensionsmicroscope: 36.9 × 15.3 × 30.5 cm (14 1/2 × 6 × 12 in.)
blue board box: 38.8 × 21.2 × 38.2 cm (15 1/4 × 8 3/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
blue board box: 38.8 × 21.2 × 38.2 cm (15 1/4 × 8 3/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
Material
Accessories1 Ocular; extension tube : "Tolles' Amplifier"; 1 nondescript objective whithout shell; diaphragm wheel but no condensor; concave substage mirror; x-y sliding stage; stage clips.
Description"Student's Microscope" with peculiar front insert to the tube. This appears to be some fine focus mechanism, but the tube does not have the usual lever to move it.
The fine focus screw is on the stage as in CHSI nos. 1130 and 1131.
With the "Tolles Amplifier," an extension tube with a single lens " to double the power of any specified objective and eyepiece without disturbing the 'corrections.'"
The fine focus screw is on the stage as in CHSI nos. 1130 and 1131.
With the "Tolles Amplifier," an extension tube with a single lens " to double the power of any specified objective and eyepiece without disturbing the 'corrections.'"
In Collection(s)
SignedEngraved on sleeve for tube: BOSTON OPTICAL WORKS -TOLLES
Inscribedon stage: 44
ProvenanceRichard Cranch Greenleaf, Boston, c. 1875; Clarence A. Cheever, Boston; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes (inv. no. 129), Harvard Medical School.
Historical AttributesThis form was called the "Student's Microscope" in the Boston Optical Works / Charles Stodder Catalogues 1871 and 1873 (copies of which are in the CHSI file for 1045). Price $12. Other CHSI examples include nos. 1129, 1130, 1131, 1286, 1294, 1338.
According to Dr. Lewis, this microscope was as owned by Richard Cranch Greenleaf , second Vice President of the Boston Sciety of Natural History, 1871-1874. Greenleaf's liberality enabled Robert Bruce Tolles to relocate to Boston to set up his optical business.
The microscope was a a gift from Dr. C. A. Cheever. to the Ernst-Lewis Collection.
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: 3 Tolles oculars 24.5 mm dia. : high power solid, med and low Huyghens; 2 Tolles objectives: 1/6 immersion dated 11/3/1878 and 1"(by can), no date, no collar; polarizer, no analyzer; substage double mirror; diaphragm wheel; no condenser; case.
Object number: 1130
Robert B. Tolles
Date: after 1877
Accessories: 3 Tolles objectives: 1/4 with collar, no date; 1/2 "TOLLES, BOSTON, dated 1877, cap instead of can; 2" (unusual) in can; 2 anonymous 24.5mm dia. oculars; single substage mirror; stage clips; double mirror on stand; standing case with key.
Object number: 1131
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: 1 Tolles objective 1/4 "; 1 ocular 24.5 mm dia.; stage clips; no condensor; diaphragm wheel; single concave substage mirror; no case.
Object number: 1158
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: 1 Tolles objective with cap : 1/4" 40 deg. , dated 5/12/1868; 2 oculars 24.5 mm dia. ; simple stage with clips; diaphragm wheel; no condensor; substage mirror; objective cap; standing walnut case.
Object number: 1286
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: 1 ocular; 1 objective 16mm 0.25 10x B&L
Object number: 1338
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: 3 Tolles objectives: 1 with 3 fronts; empty can 8/10; 5 Tolles oculars 34 mm dia.: 2 all solid, 2 solid field l. & single eye lens, 1 std.; centerable condenser with diaphragm wheel; mech. stage; side illuminator prism; cabinet.
Object number: 1016a
Boston Optical Works
Date: 1860-1890
Accessories: Three dated Tolles objectives: 1/2" Nov. 18, 1860, 1/4" Dec. 23, 1877, 1/5" Oct. 28, 1868; 1 high power solid eyepiece, 1 low power normal eyepiece; polarizer; substage mirror; mechanical stage, standing case.
Object number: 1066
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: 5 objectives; 2 (non-solid) oculars 30 mm dia.; polarizer to fit eyepiece tube ; substage polarizer; stage ring insert with 2 clamps; cardboard box with two slides; 3 flat plates of ceramic/porcelain, approx. 7 x16 x0.2; 9 x14.5 x0.2; 9 x13x 0.2; case
Object number: 1017
Smith & Beck
Date: circa 1850
Accessories: Achromatic condensor; a darkfield condenser (Wenham's parabolic reflector); a substage set of aperture stops on a swingaway vane inside a sleeve; a nickel tweezers; a stage forceps; and a bull's eye condenser with a stand, a glass tray for the stage, Varley live box; case.
Object number: 1059
Robert B. Tolles
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: Tolles ocular, 24.5 mm dia.; Tolles 1/4" objective; no condensor; diaphragm wheel; concave/flat substage mirror; standing walnut case.
Object number: 1294
Charles-Louis Chevalier
Date: circa 1840
Accessories: 2 regular objectives; a high power objective; a low power objective (a variable power dissecting lens) with an extension arm for this lens; 2 dissecting lenses; 1 objective with lieberkuhn; objective with polarizer; 2 regular eyepieces; 1 erecting eyepiece; 1 micrometer eyepiece; stage micrometer, stage bull's eye condenser on jointed arm; camera lucida; tweezers; 3 dissecting tools; pillar extension;
compressorium, 2 objective adaptive mounts (one with Chevalier threads, another with Oberhauser threads); 2 adaptors for Chevalier lenses to other microscopes (one adaptor having Society threads); case.
Object number: 1093
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: 3 Tolles objectives: 1 with 3 fronts; empty can 8/10; 5 Tolles oculars 34 mm dia.: 2 all solid, 2 solid field l. & single eye lens, 1 std.; blue filter; case; key. Also see 1016a: microscope with centerable condenser with diaphragm wheel; and mechanical stage. 1016c: side illumination prism. 1016d, e, f: specialized Tolles objectives.
Object number: 1016b