Reel for Metal Surveyor's Tape

Nichols Engineering and Contracting Company, Chicago, Illinois

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about 1940

Metal tape holder with wooden handle and tape wheel

Overall: 3 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (8.9 × 31.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

2007.1.96

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Scientific Instrument

Research Area

Scientific Instrument

Scientific Instrument: Surveying

Not on view

Inscriptions

"Nichols Engineering and Contracting Co. - Chicago, ILL, Chicago Steel Tape"

Provenance

Julius S. Mason [1894-1965], Hanover, New Hampshire; given to Dartmouth College Museum, 1965; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2007.

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