Dry Card Compass
name: label: maker
content: S. Thaxter & Son
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has a brass bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. A label on the box reads: "BRASS COMPASS, MANUFACTURED BY S. THAXTER & SON, 125 STATE STREET, BOSTON. Dealers in Nautical Instruments, Charts, Nautical Books, &c. N.B. Nautical Instruments Repaired." S. Thaxter & Sons sent this instrument to the Smithsonian in 1880, perhaps for use in the International Fishery Exhibition which opened in Berlin on April 20 of that year. The compass was clearly shown in the similar exhibition held in London in 1883.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. Brown Goode, et. al., <i>Descriptive Catalogues of the Collections Sent from the United States to the International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883</i> (Washington, D.C., 1884), vol. 2, p. 725.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: S. Thaxter & Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.039384
label: catalog number
content: 39384
label: accession number
content: 8745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nautical compass (dry card)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: compass: 7 in; 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/8 in x 10 in; 17.145 cm x 25.7175 cm x 25.4 cm