Drafting Compass

Object Name: Compass

Date: circa 1910

Donor: Donated by George T. Renner

Dimensions:

5 1/2" L.

Medium: Metal

Catalog number: 83.8.1

DescriptionA. Silver-colored metal with decorative finish. 2 painted branches or legs joined at the top by a pivot.

B. Metal point with reversable pen point.

C. Removable holder for lead.

D. Screw adjustment on end of compass.

ProvenanceDiscovered in a box from ASU. It may have been the property of Margaret G. Hood, who taught Geography at Tempe Normal School about 1899.

Terms

20th Century