Tally Register
notes: label: Description
content: This tally register (or counter) belonged to Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), the naturalist who served as the second Secretary of the Smithsonian. The inscription reads “BENTON MFG. CO. / NEW-YORK.” The firm was begun in 1874 by John Barnaby Benton, a civil engineer and inventor, and may have been the first make devices of this sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Tallying Instrument,” Carpentry and Building 5 (Feb. 1, 1883): 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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.284279
label: catalog number
content: 284279
label: accession number
content: 55865
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Register
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 6.3 cm x 8 cm; 31/32 in x 2 15/32 in x 3 5/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/16 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.77875 cm