Surveying Compass with Folding Sights
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument is marked “"KEUFFEL & ESSER CO NEW YORK." The raise rim around the face is graduated to degrees. A variation arc at the north end of the face extends 45 degrees either way, and reads by double vernier to 6 minutes. There are two level vials on the face, one at east and one at north. With polished mahogany case (here missing), this compass cost $18. K&E advertised compasses of this sort from the early 1900s through the 1940s. The company donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue (New York, 1906)</i>, p. 420.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333758
label: catalog number
content: 333758
label: accession number
content: 306012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket Compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 5 in; 5.08 cm x 12.7 cm