Pins for Marking Maps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Educational Exhibition Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This cardboard box contains an array of twenty-seven (a twenty-eighth is missing) devices for marking maps. These include glass head map pins, beads, a spiral top pin, a signal flag, and three celluloid tacks. The devices were sold by Educational Exhibition Co. of Providence, Rhode Island.
label: Description
content: A mark on the box and on the lid reads: EDUCATIONAL (/) EXHIBITION CO.
label: Description
content: The materials are associated with matheamtics teacher and mathematical model maker A. Harry Wheeler.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.139
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.139
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Map Marking Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2 cm x 7.7 cm x 14 cm; 25/32 in x 3 1/32 in x 5 1/2 in