Set of Drawing Instruments Sold by Hirshberg Art Company
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Hirshberg Art Company
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden case is covered with black leather and lined with blue satin and velvet. A metal sliding pin serves as a bar lock. The lid is marked: 2072. A piece of tape on the lid is marked: No. 4 (/) L. H. S. Inside the lid is marked: HIRSHBERG ART CO. (/) Baltimore, Md. Between the lines of text is the firm's logo, a stag above a ribbon with the word "TRADEMARK."
label: Description
content: The set contains a 6" compass with bendable legs and removable pencil point, pen point, divider point, and lengthening bar; 1-3/8" cylindrical ridged metal case for pencil leads; and 5" steel and wood drawing pen. The joint tightener is missing, and the lead case is empty.
label: Description
content: Hirshberg Art Company began to sell art and drafting supplies in Baltimore around 1900. In 1910, it offered model number 2072 for $3.00. The store was still in business in 1922. The donor's father, John William Bernard Gilbert (1901–1973), acquired the instruments as a student at Laurel (Md.) High School. He entered college in the fall of 1919, so he purchased the set before then. His father, William E. Gilbert, owned a business in Baltimore.
label: Description
content: References: Hirshberg Art Co., <i>Catalogue and Price List of Artists' Materials</i> (Baltimore, 1910), 234; <i>The Educational Red Book: A Buyer's Guide for School Superintendents, Secretaries, and Board Members</i> (Albany, N.Y.: C. F. Williams & Son, 1922), 40; accession file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Drawing Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William E. Gilbert
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0125.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0125
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0125.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instruments, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.2 cm x 18.3 cm x 8 cm; 7/8 in x 7 7/32 in x 3 5/32 in