Case for Surveyor’s Tools
National Museum of American History

Case for Surveyor’s Tools

Unknown artist

wood (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

Preston Bassett received this case for surveyor’s tools from James L. Davis, who claimed that it had been used by his great great grandfather, James Griswold, in laying out the Erie Railroad in the early 1830s.

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