Tripod

Object Name:

Tripod

Object ID:

2007.070.02

Place of Origin:

Japan

Date:

circa 1971

Description:

Surveying tripod. Adjustable wooden legs, pivots at top, thumb screws tighten. Extendable, with two sets of thumb screws to tighten straps around legs. Single steel claws at end of each leg, hooked tips. Tripod head is painted black, round with inset, and toothed outer edge. Engraved "LIETZ" and "SOKKISHA / JAPAN" on upper surface.

Material:

Metal
Wood

Dimensions:

H-45.1 W-5.5 inches

Provenance:

Surveying and drafting equipment owned and used by Asa H. Morgan (1904-1994) of Bow and Allenstown, NH. The son of Wallace and Ada Noyes Morgan, Asa graduated from Pembroke Academy in 1921 and attended the University of New Hampshire. He worked the family farm on Bow Bog Road in Bow, surveyed land, and delivered milk to H. P. Hood. He worked as a surveyor from 1950 to the early 1970s. His survey work included Interstate Route 93 in New Hampshire. Mr. Morgan served four years as a state representative, two years as a state senator, and twenty years as a county commissioner. He was a member of the Grange, IOOF, and 32nd degree Mason.

The donor, Rita M. Clough Morgan (1913-2011), was the wife of Asa Morgan.

Credit Line:

Gift of Rita C. Morgan

People:

Morgan, Asa H. (1903-1994)

Subjects:

Surveying, Surveying equipment, Surveying instruments, Surveyors