Telescope (Spyglass)
Telescope (Spyglass)
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- Description
- This small brass draw-tube telescope has 7 sections. The "C. Duhamel / Optician / New Orleans" engraved on the smallest section refers to Clement Duhamel (1817-1871), an immigrant from France who opened a shop in New Orleans. Newspaper ads indicated that the Duhamel business was still going in 1880.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- telescope (spyglass)
- place made
- United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
- Measurements
- overall: 4 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 3.4925 cm
- ID Number
- PH.313645
- catalog number
- 313645
- accession number
- 191191
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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