Carl Zeiss Jena monocular microscope

Carl Zeiss Jena monocular microscope

Warren Anatomical Museum

Archives for Women in Medicine

Lynne M. Reid Collection

Microscope

Microscopy

Center for the History of Medicine Manuscript Transfer;

Black enamel compound monocular microscope with brass knobs and objectives used by Lynne M. Reid and S. Burt Wolbach before her. Nose-piece contains four objective lenses. Illuminator has aperture to control light levels. More modern wooden microscope box, empty except one circular blue glass. Key present.

Monocular microscope made of enamel and brass.

Carl Zeiss Jena, VEB.

Bausch & Lomb, inc

1900-1945

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Medical Instruments, Equipment, and Devices

This microscope was separated from the Lynne M. Reid papers, call no H MS c156.

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Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 20166

Warren Anatomical Museum Accession Number: 2007.003

Lynne Reid donated the microscope with her personal paper collection [HMS c 156] on 7/31/2006. The scope was later transferred into the Warren Anatomical Museum collection. Prior to being owned by Lynne Reid, the microscope was owned and used by S. Burt Wolbach.

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39 H x 21.5 W x 24 D cm