Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection, 19th century

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Summary

Title:
Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection
Dates:
19th century
Creators:
Bolles, Edwin C (Edwin Cortland), 1836-1920 and Hartshorn, Carl L. (Carl Larrabee), 1892-1966
Abstract:
The Hartshorn-Bolles Microscopy Slide Collection consists of one wooden cabinet of approximately 2000 microscope slides produced in the mid to late 19th century. The slides are a varied collection of mounts by various preparers and retailers, covering a range of subjects including diatoms, polysoa (bryosoan), minerals, human and animal histology, insects and insect histology, pollen and seeds, plant histology, and petrology.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection (LA 2020.0306). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of one wooden cabinet of approximately 2000 microscope slides produced in the mid to late 19th century. The slides are a varied collection of mounts by various preparers and retailers, covering a range of subjects including diatoms, polysoa (bryosoan), minerals, human and animal histology, insects and insect histology, pollen and seeds, plant histology, and petrology.

Biographical / historical:

The Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Collection was assembled by Reverend E. C. Bolles (1836-1920), Universalist minister and professor of English and American Literature at Tufts College. He used the slides in his natural history lectures. Carl L. Hartshorn (1891-1966), who worked for Bolles while Hartshorn was a student at Tufts, received the collection from Bolles and donated it to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1963. Among the notable preparers/retailers of the microscope slides are E. W. Wheeler, Joseph Bourgogne, Charles Collins, and M. C. Cooke.

Physical facet:
1 cabinet of 50 drawers, arranged in two sets of 25.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding Aid prepared by Marie Myers
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-03-10 09:58:00 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Terms of access:

Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection (LA 2020.0306). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Location of this collection:
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101, US
Contact:
(619) 255-0225
library@sdnhm.org
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