Fountain in Vacuo
notes: label: Description
content: This fountain in vacuo came from the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., a school that was established in 1870s as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth. It may have been acquired in September 1891 when the school moved to a new building on M Street (and became popularly known as the M Street High School). The inscription on the base reads “QUEEN & CO. PHILA.”
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), p. 34.
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.323752
label: catalog number
content: 323752
label: accession number
content: 252354
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fountain in Vacuo
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 72.39 cm x 19.05 cm