Wooden Level
date: label: Date made
content: 1886
label: date made
content: C. 1886
name: label: maker
content: Davis & Cook
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden level is part of a collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century tools owned by Carl Hostrup. Carl was born in Denmark in 1870 but, as a young man, he emigrated to Clinton, Iowa, where he would spend the rest of his life. Carl was thus part of a mid-to-late-nineteenth-century wave of Northern European immigrants who crossed the ocean looking for a better life and who settled much of the American Midwest and West after the U.S. had wrested the land from indigenous nations during the Plains Wars.
label: Description
content: Carl’s ties to his new community of Clinton, Iowa ran deep. His sons were born in this small Iowa town in the 1890s, and Carl was eventually buried there in 1950. This tool thus speaks to the story of immigration and settler-colonialism in the American West.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Hand Tools
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Christian and Clarence Hostrup
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.327326
label: catalog number
content: 327326
label: accession number
content: 266152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Level
label: Other Terms
content: Level; Measuring & Gauging Tools; Hand Tools
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: liquid spirit (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, walnut (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 4 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 71.12 cm x 12.3825 cm x 3.4925 cm