Case for Surveyor’s Tools
notes: label: Description
content: Preston Bassett received this case for surveyor’s tools from James L. Davis, who claimed that it 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.319345
label: accession number
content: 236805
label: catalog number
content: 319345
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surveyor's compass case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 98.5 cm x 41.3 cm x 40.3 cm; 38 3/4 in x 16 1/4 in x 15 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 16 in x 7 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 40.64 cm x 19.685 cm