repair kit for Came demonstration show
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A wooden box, lined with a piece of newsprint ("The Reporter", ca 1880) and containing parts and tools used in the maintenance of Charles Came's traveling lecture shows. These contents have been sorted into 39 plastic bags.
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content: Contents as bagged:
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content: 1 sponge (in 5 pieces)
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content: 5 thumb-screws (1 broken)
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content: 1 telegraph relay adjuster with string
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content: 3 metal discs (foot pads?)
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content: 1 carbon fragment (shedding)
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content: 1 wooden cone with brass frame
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content: 4 brass discs (round-over edges, countersunk center holes)
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content: 7 brass thumbscrews and bushings
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content: 1 empty black paper case
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content: 3 brass rollers
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content: 1 wax(?) fragment
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content: 2 wooden spheres, 1 brass weight, 1 cork sphere, 1 cork sphere with attached brass
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content: weight
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content: 1 red horseshoe magnet
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content: 4 steel square-head bolts with wing nuts
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content: 1 steel frame with pivoting pin
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content: 1 rectangular brass plate
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content: 28 assorted nails, tacks, and pins (and fragments)
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content: 17 flathead screws and fragments
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content: 4 clips with pins
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content: 5 hollow metal tubes
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content: 1 brass weight, 2 binding posts
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content: 1 brass rosette
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content: 1 wooden tube, 1 wood and brass pull finial
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content: 3 straight steel rods, 1 curved steel bracket, 3 brass and steel mounts
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content: 1 brass tube with glass cup, 1 brass tube with side-clip
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content: 1 brass spike in two sections
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content: 1 scissors
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content: 2 wooden handles
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content: 4 pieces of wax or gutta purcha
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content: 2 files, 3 scroll saw blades
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content: 4 handmade metal tool-ends, 1 handle(?)
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content: 1 bag of parts containing: 2 brass rings, 2 offset steel pins, 2 indicator needles, 2 steel
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content: pins, 2 brass pins, 1 brass cog, 1 brass switch handle, 1 brass plate (4 holes), 1
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content: brass plate (9 holes), 1 steel plate, 1 brass arm with mica(?) disc, 1 cellulose
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content: plug
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content: 1 spatula, 1 copper arm with end caps, 3 brass handles(S), 1 steel pin
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content: 2 brass weights, 2 plated spheres, 1 brass sphere
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content: 1 steel plate, 1 copper pin
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content: 1 steel gauge
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content: 2 coils of insulated wire
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content: 1 empty tin can
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content: 1 ivory(?) brush (no bristles) “extra-fine e[???]” 1 ivory handle, 1 ivory tag (in two pieces
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content: with etched handwritten label), 1 ivory plate “O. W. Waste / Pittsford N.Y.”, 1 handle with pin
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content: 1 plated mount
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: 1989.0743.425
label: accession number
content: 1989.0743
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0743.425
label: collector/donor number
content: 56
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Container (Of Miscellaneous Parts)
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content: hardware
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content: tools
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 6 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 29.21 cm x 19.05 cm