Finding Aid to the Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection LA.2020.0306
Finding Aid prepared by Marie Myers
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
2020-03-10
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101
library@sdnhm.org
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
Title: Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection
Creator:
Bolles, Edwin C (Edwin Cortland), 1836-1920
source:
Hartshorn, Carl L. (Carl Larrabee), 1892-1966
Identifier/Call Number: LA.2020.0306
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
1 cabinet of 50 drawers, arranged in two sets of 25.
Date (inclusive): 19th century
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.
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.
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.
The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.
[Identification of item], Hartshorn-Bolles Microscope Slide Collection (LA 2020.0306). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Microscopy -- History
Bolles, Edwin C. (Edwin Cortland), 1836-1920
Hartshorn, Carl L. (Carl Larrabee), 1892-1966
Cabinet
Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet
Slides
Selections from the Hartshorn-Bolles Collection of Victorian Microscope Slides
