Measure, Tape
- Object Name:
- Measure, Tape
- Object ID:
- 2007.070.08
- Place of Origin:
- Saginaw, MI
- Date:
- circa 1943
- Description:
- Tape measure. Narrow metal tape measure, 100 feet in length, marked in feet, subdivided into tenths and hundredths. Comes with leather straps for securing in coiled position, but both are dried out. Marked "TENTH FT" "THE LUFKIN RULE CO. SAGINAW MICH." on one end, "CANADA / PAT 1943" on other.
- Material:
- Metal
Leather - Dimensions:
- Dia-7.5 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, Measures, Measuring
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