Abbe-type microscope camera lucida
Date: 1890-1900
Inventory Number: 1077c
Classification: Camera Lucida
Subject:
Maker: Carl Reichert (1851 - 1922)
Owner: Franklin Dexter (1857 - 1927)
Owner: John Templeton Bowen (1857 - 1940)
Donor: Simeon Burt Wolbach (1880 - 1954)
Collector: Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes
Cultural Region:
Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
case: 5.2 × 13.5 × 6.8 cm (2 1/16 × 5 5/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
box: 13.3 × 47.3 × 22.5 cm (5 1/4 × 18 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Accessories: case
Description:
1077c--an Abbe-type of camera lucida for the microscope with a large mirror. In a wood box covered in leather and lined in padded green silk.
Signedstamped in gold on interior lid of box: C. REICHERT / WIEN
Inscribedin ink on brown paper on box lid: Franklin Dexter
Historical AttributesThis camera lucida originally belonged to Dr. Franklin Dexter, who was a professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School.
Curatorial Remarkstag in case says that this drawing camera was originally part of microscope 1145, belonging to Franklin Dexter, whose name is on the box lid.
ProvenanceJohn Templeton Bowen, MD, Harvard Medical School; S. B. Wolbach, MD, Harvard Medical School; gift to Ernst-Lewis Collection of Microscopes (inv. no. 77), Harvard Medical School, August 20, 1919.
