Thermometer Holder
notes: label: Description
content: The “U.S. Fish Commission” inscription on this brass thermometer holder refers to an organization that was organized by Congress in 1871, and led initially by Spencer Fullerton Baird, a naturalist then serving as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317698
label: catalog number
content: 317698
label: accession number
content: 231761
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermometer holder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 1 in; 34.29 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 7/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 34.13125 cm x 8.89 cm x 2.8575 cm