Description
Container list
Box 38
Personal Collection
Smith, Earle Covington
003.031.1
eight-piece drafting kit with lined case [Excelsior, Keuffel&Esser Company; case is
9.25" x 3.751
003.031.2a-b
aluminum D. W. Brunton's surveyor's compass [2a] in leather case [2b]
[manufactured by William Ainsworth and Sons, Denver, CO; compass is
octagonal, 2.75" x 3" x 1"; case is 4.5" x 3.75" x 1.5"]
003.031.3
small cardboard box with miscellaneous plumb-line weights and cotter pins
003.031.4
steel measuring tape with wooden handle and leather thong [Keuffer&Esser Company,
New York; spool is 6.25" diameter; with frame and handle, 10.5" long (excellent
condition! 0]
003.031.5
Eureka Tape Repair kit for steel tapes [Lufkin Rule Company, Saginaw, Michigan;
blue and white metal tube with removable cap, several sleeves and a piece of
sandpaper inside; 1" diameter x 2.25" tall]
003.031.6
Eureka Tape Splices kit for steel tapes [Dietzgen (Co.?); wooden tube with wooden
screw cap, orange and black label, several sleeves and a piece of sandpaper inside;
1" diameter x 2.25" tall]
003.031.7a-c
wooden slide rule [7a] in black leather case [7b] in a green cardboard box [7c]
[Keuffel&Esser Co., New York; "USBR (U. S. Bureau of Reclamation) stamped
on the ruler; "Personal Property of E. C. Smith" on a paper label pasted to the back
of the slide rule case; box is 11.25" x 2.5" x 1.5"]
003.031.8a-b
two triangular scales [wood; marked "U.S. St'd (U. S. Standard) and F. P. Co."]
003.031.9a-b
ivory draftsman's ruler with fractional scales marked in units of 1/8, 14/ , 3/8, 1/2, 3A, 1,
and 1% inches, with a leather case [case is 6.75" x 1.25"; written on the case is
"Dorothea Greenlee, 135 West Thira Avenue, Denver, Colorado"]
003.031.10
24-inch folding aluminum ruler with ivory [?] inlay [Stanley Rule and Level
Company, New Britain, Connecticut]
003.031.11
calculating conversion table [paperboard; "Hydraulics of Pipe Culverts. By F. T.
Mavis, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;" 1946; manufactured by the Perry Frag Corporation,
Maywood, IL; includes an advertisement, "Jourdan Concrete Pipe Company,
Fresno, California"]
003.031.12
Field Notebook no. 7-538 [unused; yellow grid paper in printed boards; "U. S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation"]
003.031.13
small leather notebook for six-hole loose-leaf pages, containing printed mathematical
tables [published by Lefax of Philadelphia, PA; "reprined May 1929;" 4" x 6.75"]
003.031.14
small leather notebook for six-hole loose-leaf pages, containing lined note pages
[published by Lefax of Philadelphia, PA; unused; 4.25" x 7"]
003.031.15
Concrete Manual: A Manual for the Control of Concrete Construction [Denver, CO:
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, October 1942 (4th edition)]
003.031.18
key ring with 10 keys and a brass medallion business advertisement ["Jackbits Reduce
the Cost of Drilling Rock. Ingersoll-Rene]
003.031.19
leather key case with three keys [2.25" x 3.5"]
003.031.20a-b
manually operated Boker's Neck Shaver Clippers [20a] in original box [20b] [box
is brown and cream cardboard; 6.75" x 3.75" x 1.5;" clippers are nickel plated
and includes a blade guard; manufactured by Boker Cutlery and Hardware
Company, Inc., New York]
003.031.21
steel money clip with a Thunderbird motif [2.5" x 1"]