Dry Card Compass
name: label: maker
content: Breed, Aaron
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has a wooden bowl and a paper card with an ornate American eagle with a ribbon in its mouth reading "E PLURIBUS UNUM" at north. This card was probably made for William Davenport. It was later used by his successor, William Helffricht. The overlaid signature reads "AARON BREED BOSTON" and "166 BROAD ST. COR. OF PURCHASE ST." This refers to Aaron Breed (1791-1861), a nautical instrument maker and dealer in Boston, who established an instrument shop at 166 Broad Street around 1840.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Aaron Breed," in <i>Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association</i> (1861): 41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donald D. Donohue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0179.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0179.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dry card compass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bowl: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 16.1925 cm x 24.13 cm x 24.13 cm