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Brass Beauties, Black Beauties: Buffalo’s Spencer Lens Company

By Richard G. Waite - January 28, 2013

As science and medicine evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Spencer Lens Company continued its long tradition of quality and innovation in microscope manufacturing.

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