Drawing Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: Preston Bassett received this set of drawing instruments from James L. Davis, who claimed that they had been used by his great great grandfather, James Griswold, in laying out the Erie Railroad in the early 1830s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Preston R. Bassett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319341
label: catalog number
content: 319341
label: accession number
content: 236805
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing Instruments
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.7 cm x 17.1 cm; x 2 5/8 in x 6 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.175 cm