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Artifact Name	Haemacytometer
Type of Object	Hemacytometer
Manufacturer	Powers & Anderson
Place of Manufacture	Richmond (Va.)
Date of Manufacture	1925-1935
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	2.4 cm. x 19.7 cm. x 11.5 cm.
Physical Details	Hemacytometer with Levy counting chamber in leather box. The box has rounded corners and a pull tab locking mechanism. Exterior top is imprinted "American Standard Haemacytometer with Levy Counting Chamber" at the center, and "Arthur H. Thomas Company Philadelphia USA" at the lower left. Inside, against green velvet, there is a copper-colored seal with scalloped edges, which bears the manufacturer info. The name of the donor, "J. Shapiro" and the abbreviation "M. C. V." are written in ink on the velvet under the lid. Inside, there are four graduated pipettes with vacuum bulbs of different sizes, and two brown rubber tubes that end with glass mouthpieces. The counting chamber is composed of both clear and frosted glass.
Medical Subject	Blood Cell Count -- instrumentation
Accession Number	2002.3.2
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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