c. 1870 Microphotograph of Blood Cells Under Microscope, Dr. S. W. Fletcher, Pepperell MA (2 of 2) Lilley with handle

with handle

like a puffer fish blowing up

woven of ash splint I believe

so as to be useable right away as a frame

The latest--and I think greatest--find reflecting my predilection for representations of pipes

c. 1870 Microphotograph of Blood Cells Under Microscope, Dr. S. W. Fletcher, Pepperell MA (2 of 2) Lilley with handleI don't know a whole lot about microphotography or about blood cells either, really! but I know that this is a microphotograph (a photograph taken under a microscope) of blood, and that is was produced by Dr. S. W. Fletcher of Pepperell, MA c. 1870s. (Included in documentation is another from the set this came from, that one mounted with printed attribution on the board.) I've learned that William Henry Fox Talbot (18001877) was taking photographs