Jacob's Staff
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Wright (1798-1898) was born in North Carolina, surveyed public lands in Florida in 1824, and moved to Texas in 1851. He probably used this Jacob’s staff with the Levi Colton surveyor’s compass in the collection.
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.323710
label: accession number
content: 1979.0769
label: catalog number
content: 323710
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacob's staff
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 104.775 cm x 4.445 cm