Drill canister
date: label: date made
content: ca. early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This drill canister dates to the early twentieth century and holds different twist drill bits. Twist drill bits are the most common type of drill bit, able to be used for drilling holes in or cutting various materials such as wood or metal.
label: Description
content: This canister was gifted alongside the toolbox and paperwork of Walter Danow, a machinist of the early twentieth century mainly based in or near New York City. Danow was born in 1883 in Berlin, Germany, and immigrated to New York City with his parents at only nine months old. In 1904, Danow completed an apprenticeship at R. Hoe & Company, Inc., a renowned manufactory of printing machinery based in New York City. He continued at R. Hoe, eventually becoming a foreman, until a machinist’s strike at the firm in the 1920s. An avid gardener, Danow was reluctant to return to working indoors after leaving R. Hoe, and began building houses around Hicksville, a neighborhood in the town of Oyster Bay on Long Island.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Helen Danow Jacobs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0625.128
label: accession number
content: 1984.0625
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0625.128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drill canister
label: Object Name
content: tool
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 7.9375 cm