Surveyor’s Tally
notes: label: Description
content: Preston Bassett received this tally strap from James L. Davis, who claimed that they had been used by his great great grandfather, James Griswold, in laying out the Erie Railroad in the early 1830s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Ridgefield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Preston R. Bassett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319342
label: accession number
content: 236805
label: catalog number
content: 319342
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Talley
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 84 cm; x 33 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 19.05 cm x 14.605 cm