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InscribedA typed exhibit label from the Peabody Museum of Salem in 1921: Two old-time portable microscopes / used by Dr. Henry Wheatland. / Loaned by Essex Institute.
Historical AttributesDr. Henry Wheatland was a prominent scientist in Salem and at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He was the onetime director of the Essex Institute and also its president. He conducted classes and outings and very likely carried this instrument with him.
A scrap of paper with the microscope has his name perhaps written in his own hand.
A typed exhibit label from the Peabody Museum of Salem in 1921 reads: "Two old-time portable microscopes / used by Dr. Henry Wheatland. / Loaned by Essex Institute."
ProvenanceDr. Henry Wheatland, Essex Institute, Salem, MA; Essex Institute, Salem, MA (no. T.55); received by David P. Wheatland, 1958, on permanent loan to CHSI.