Sketching Board
notes: label: Description
content: This seems to be a sketching board of the sort that Keuffel & Esser made for the U.S. Army. The inscription on the bottom reads “U.S. / SKETCHING BOARD MODEL 1917” and “KEUFFEL & ESSER CO. N.Y.”
label: Description
content: This was used by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), an ornithologist from Norway who worked at the Smithsonian Institution.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, Catalogue of Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes (New York, 1921), p. 341.
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.320248
label: catalog number
content: 320248
label: accession number
content: 241910
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketching board
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in canvas: 1 3/8 in x 16 in x 16 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 40.64 cm x 41.91 cm