Box, Ballot
- Object Name:
- Box, Ballot
- Object ID:
- 2016.051.01
- Date:
- 1894
- Description:
- Official New Hampshire ballot shipping box. Rectangular wooden box with removable sliding cover. Box joints at corners. Printed paper adhered to cover, ends, and bottom. Cover: "State of N[ew] Hampshire. / Office of Secretary of State. / Concord, 1894 / To the / Town Clerk of / Francestown [handwritten] / New Hampshire. / THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS / 10 Specimen Ballots / 360 [handwritten] Official Ballots / 'At the opening of the polls in each polling place the seals o[n] / the packages shall be publicly broken by the ward or town cler[k] / [and] the packages shall be opened by the moderator, and the ballot[s] / [sh]all be delivered by him to the ballot clerks.' Sec. [?]5, Chap. 3 / Public Statutes. / Open only one package unless additional ball[ots] / are needed for the purpose of votin[g]." New Hampshire State Seal printed on each end. Bottom: "STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. / OFFICIAL BALLOTS."
- Material:
- Wood
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-4.1 W-5.7 L-14.1 inches
- Provenance:
- From Rushford Collection, Dartmouth College Museum. Transferred from Dartmouth College to Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, VT.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
- Subjects:
- Ballots, Ballot boxes, State seal (NH)
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