INTRODUCTION
Held In Reverence: ANTIQUE MICROSCOPE SLIDES
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 Soufrière were sold as souvenirs to microscope slide collectors.
FISH SCALES – LEEUWENHOEK FOUND THEM IN AN EEL’S SKIN, But Rabbis Ruled, “It’s Still Not Good Enough To Be Kosher!” The father of microscopy discovered that an eel’s skin harbored hidden fish scales. According to the rules, that makes the snake-like fish 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.
HANDHELD 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 from the 1876 supernatural event when meat fell from the sky.
MARY ANN ALLARD BOOTH 
: The life and achievements of America’s first woman microscopist warranting 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 was proof of the Bible’s Deluge.
PALMER SLIDE COMPANY
: an American glass manufacturing company, designed a top 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 SLIDE KITS: The English pharmacist turned amateur microscope slide making into an international business.
THE WELSBACH COMPANY: They lit up nineteenth-century America in more ways than one, leaving 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 workers’ lives; many were children.
GEORGE FITZ WELLS: AMERICA’S 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
Flesh Fly With Maggots. The Race for Carrion
MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED COCKROACH
: A new invasive species found in the Northeastern 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
ANTIQUE POOL AND BILLIARD BALLS Made of Clay and Elephant Ivory: Manufactured by Hyatt – Peerless in Albany, New York, in 1906
Early (1906) Marine Electric Welding in the United States
How to cite information used from the website:
Reiser, Frank W. (2026) Searching An Invisible World. https://antiqueslides.net/