INTRODUCTION
ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT JAMES GARFIELD’S LUNG: Stolen during his autopsy, then circulated among microscope slide collectors.
SOUVENIERS OF HUMAN CARNAGE – Microscope slides of ashes collected during the eruptions of Mts. Pelee and Souflier were sold as souvenirs to microscope slide collectors .
FISH SCALES – LEEUWENHOEK FOUND THEM, But Rabbis Ruled, “NOT REAL ENOUGH!” The earliest microscope user discovered that an eel’s skin contained hidden fish scales. According to the Bible, scales made the snake-like seafood kosher.
COFFEE BANDITS TRACKED DOWN BY MICROSCOPE WIELDING SLEUTHS
ERNST HAECKEL AND THE POLYCYSTINA:
The glass houses of protozoa were made famous by the artistic skills of the German microscopist and artist.
HANHELD MAGNIFYING LENSES: Selected examples illustrate the development of high-quality, low-power viewing devices during the nineteenth century.
KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER: A Document Sample Has Been Found of the 1876 mysterious event when meat fell from the. Microscopic examination reveals the specimen was ripped from an animal’s lung.
MARY ANN ALLARD BOOTH 
: The life and achievements of America’s first woman microscopist of scientific stature.
GUADALOUPE WOMAN: DID SHE DROWN IN NOAH’S FLOOD? The remains of a woman found on the island of Guadeloupe led catastrophists to claim she proved the Bible’s Deluge.
PALMER SLIDE COMPANY
: an American glass manufacturing company, designed a quality microscope slide for exhibitions.
VICTORIAN DRY-MOUNTED SLIDES OF INSECTS:
Eighteenth-century England turns the microscope slide mounting of insects into a high art form.
WALTER WHITE – FIRST TO MAKE MAIL-ORDER MICROSCOPE SLIDES: An English pharmacist who turned amateur microscope slide making into an international business.
THE WELSBACH COMPANY: They lit up nineteenth-century America in more ways than one and they left New Jersey with a radioactive superfund site!
WHALEBONE SLIDES AND THOMAS D. RUSSELL: A Microscope slide manufacturer’s mislabeled work allows greater insight into the process of English commercial slide making and whaling.
WOMEN DEVOTEES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MICROSCOPY: While working in the shadows of famous men, women reached out to the public about the advances in science and microscopy by writing children’s books.
JOHN BENJAMIN DANCER: His advances in microphotography (tiny pictures) led to the first microfilm, and also the microdot – a favorite of spies.
KEEPING THE FAITH: CHURCH SPONSORED BOOKS ABOUT MICROSCOPY: Religion helped popularize biology among lay readers during the Victorian Era by interlacing scripture with science.
CUT THEM UP ALIVE! LIVING ANIMAL DISSECTIONS IN CLASSROOMS: A battle of ethics that began in Victorian England and still resonates in laboratories today.
SWILL MILK, GOOD TO THE LAST DROP: The New York City scandal – Profiteers sell milk from dying cows to children.
NORDLINGER’S 100 SECTIONS OF WOODS: 
A RARE NATURALIST’S TREASURE AND A BOOK COLLECTOR’S DELIGHT
NORDLINGER AND MATHIEU: 60 TRANSVERSALES, a special issue of microtomed wood for Forestry Students in Nancy, France
THE JESSUP COLLECTION
: THE WOODS OF THE UNITED STATES The world’s largest collection of wood started at the American Museum of Natural History
PLAYERS TOBACCO CIGARETTE CARDS:
Colorful Trading Cards of Microscopic Views of Nature Advertise Victorian England’s Captivation With Tiny Things
THE MONUMENTAL AMERICAN WOODS – Romeyn Hough’s Botanical Masterpiece
GRINDING AWAY LIVES: The Tragic Toll of Sheffield’s Fork-Grinders. Inhaled steel dust shortened the life of workers.
GEORGE FITZ WELLS: FATHER OF EXERCISE SCIENCE: 
The discovery of Fitz’s histology microscope slide collection provides insights into the creation of a fatigue laboratory at Harvard and the development of first BA degree in physical education in the US.
RONEYN HOUGH’S REAL WOOD LANTERN SLIDES – A rare collection of thirty intact examples!
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Links to other works on the topic of natural history by Frank W. Reiser
ANTIQUE POOL AND BILLIARD BALLS Made of Clay and Elephant Ivory: Manufactured by Hyatt – Peerless in Albany, New York, in 1906
MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED COCKROACH
: A new invasive species found in the North Eastern United States suburbs.
CHARLES F. CONLY: Photographer of Stage and the Famous
MALLARD BEHAVIOR: COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DUCKS
GOSLINGS SWEPT AWAY WHILE ECOLOGY STUDENTS WATCH IN HORROR
How to cite information used from the website:
Reiser, Frank W. (2025) Searching An Invisible World. https://antiqueslides.net/