Post with Bracket
name: label: maker
content: Young, William J.
notes: label: Description
content: This brass post with bracket is part of the transit instrument (aka meridian circle) that was made by William J. Young, in Philadelphia, and installed in the new observatory at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1865.
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: 1980.0318.01H
label: accession number
content: 1980.0318
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0318.01H
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transit, Astronomical, Part
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 11.43 cm x 11.43 cm