Benchmark
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Geological Survey was established in 1879 and transferred this aluminum bench mark to the Smithsonian in 1907. The inscriptions read "U.S. Geological Survey B.M.” and “$250 fine for disturbing this mark."
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.247972
label: accession number
content: 48093
label: catalog number
content: 247972
objectType: label: Object Name
content: benchmark
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 9.525 cm