microscope slide box
Datecirca 1870
Inventory Number1092b
ClassificationMicroscope Slide
Subject
User
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
1809 - 1894
Dimensionsmatching slides: 2.6 × 7.4 × 0.7 cm (1 × 2 15/16 × 1/4 in.)
smaller slide: 1.9 × 6 × 0.1 cm (3/4 × 2 3/8 × 1/16 in.)
box: 4.5 × 15.5 × 9.5 cm (1 3/4 × 6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
smaller slide: 1.9 × 6 × 0.1 cm (3/4 × 2 3/8 × 1/16 in.)
box: 4.5 × 15.5 × 9.5 cm (1 3/4 × 6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
AccessoriesPaper tag and hand written information found in box is now in instrument file.
DescriptionSmall white cardboard box with a slotted wood piece along each of the two long sides. There are 24 slots for microscope slides. There are 3 slides inside the box.
Curatorial Remarks1092 a, b, c, at Medical School, Warren Museum
Historical AttributesUsed by Dr. O. W. Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Date: circa 1867
Accessories: 3 Tolles oculars (low power, 30.1 mm O.D.; medium power, 30.1 mm O.D., solid front with scale, single eye lens; high power, 24.7 mm O.D., single front, solid eye lens); 1 ocular (without a lens) ; 1 objective (without a lens).
Object number: 1028
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Date: circa 1865
Accessories: ocular; objective
Object number: 1027
English
Date: 1650-1700
Accessories: metal Old Bond Longon cigarette case; dark wooden case and board; hand-written, single sheet, unsigned paper on Napier rods (in instrument file)
Object number: DW0956
Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Date: 1970
Accessories: cloth instrument cover lined with tissue paper; black power cord; accompanied by central electronic unit (2001-1-003b); two page hand-written note from Peter L. Smith, Research associate, Harvard College Observatory, regarding the donation of the calculator, dated 10 December, 2001 (original and copy in instrument file); photocopy of operation instructions from the bottom panel of calculator unit (in instrument file); printed document on the history of the Wang 360SE by Rick Bensene (in instrument file); printed document on the history of the Want 360SE from Geocity (in instrument file); printed document on the Orbiting Solar Observatories (in instrument file)
Object number: 2001-1-0033a
William Henry Walmsley
Date: 1870-1879
Accessories: One objective: Tolles 1/10 immersion, 180 air angle, dated 8/20/1874, with canister (7 others are now in 1214a); 2 pairs of oculars; magnifier on base marked: J. R. W. /P...?, ME, ; polarizer; drawing prism; diaphragm disc; case.
Object number: 1214h
Charles Thurber
Date: circa 1860
Accessories: wooden framed, glass paned case; original and photocopied letter from the Massachusetts Historical Society Director, Stephen T. Riley to David P. Wheatland dated June 28, 1961regarding permanent loan of the pantograph (in instrument file); original and photocopied hand-written letter from David P. Wheatland to Stephen T. Riley regarding permanent loan of the pantorgraph dated March 16, 1962 (in instrument file); original and photocopied hand written letter from David P. Wheatland to Stephen T. Riley regarding the pantograph dated June 23 1961 (in instrument file)
Object number: 1998-1-1617
Edwin H. Land
Date: 1955-1980
Object number: 2004-1-0264b
Eugene Dietzgen Company
Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century
Accessories: brown leather case with flap closure and model information printed in gold
Object number: 2003-1-0223
Harmanus van Deyl
Date: 1807
Accessories: 2 objectives; 2 eye lenses for a fixed field lens; 1 Lieberkühn; frogplate; bull's eye; stage forceps; spring stage; live box; hand lens; 2 tweezers; 2 boxes with 59 specimen slides; glass disk; black disk; "fish" tube with wire; ivory box of mica cover slips; 5 glass slides; 3 lenses; 2 keys.
Object number: 2002-1-0075a