repair kit for Came demonstration show
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A wooden box containing assorted repair parts, supplies and pieces used by Charles Came in his traveling show. Includes disjoint parts from various objects in this collection. A folded cloth (32" h x 86" w, oiled) bearing a design was found folded in the bottom of the box. Under that cloth was found several pages of an old newspaper (Rochester Democrat, dated 11 May 1889).
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content: Contents as bagged:
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content: 4 each electric push-buttons;
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content: 1 each hand-mirror frame without glass;
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content: 1 each coil of cloth-insulated electrical wire;
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content: 1 bag with several coils of tie-wire;
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content: 1 each folded cloth;
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content: 1 box "High Grade Addressograph" typewriter ribbon;
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content: 1 box typewriter ribbon from "Non-Snut Carbon Mfg. Co., Rochester";
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content: 1 each ceramic cup;
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content: 1 bag with several pieces of insulated electrical wire;
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content: 2 bags containing loose carbon granules;
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content: 1 bag with two needles and a curved bracket;
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content: 1 bag with four brass weights;
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content: 1 bag with loose powder grains;
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content: 1 each geared crank-handle;
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content: 1 bag with about twenty wooden balls;
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content: 1 bag with wooden pin and wooden plate;
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content: 1 bag with an orrery hemi-sphere and six balls;
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content: 1 bag with disassembled orrery;
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content: 1 each wooden roller;
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content: 1 box "Keelox" brand typewriter ribbon;
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content: 1 bag with several pieces of insulated electrical wire;
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content: 1 each wooden ball;
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content: 1 each pocket knife;
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content: 1 roll of cloth;
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content: 1 bag with nails, pins and disjoint metal parts;
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content: 1 each knife;
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content: 1 bag with sewing needles;
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content: 1 bag with powder grains;
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content: 1 each engraving plate for "Came Scientific Exhibition."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0743.426
label: accession number
content: 1989.0743
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0743.426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Container (Of Miscellaneous Parts)
label: Object Name
content: components for demonstration apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: x (box wood)
label: Measurements
content: box: 14 1/2 in x 18 in x 9 in; 36.83 cm x 45.72 cm x 22.86 cm