POLE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- RAIL GRIPPER
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19960010009
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- RAIL GRIPPER
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Length
- 147
- Diameter
- 6.8
- Description
- WOODEN POLES WITH ROUNDED POMMEL AND FLATTENED HEADS. DIAMETER INCREASES FROM POMMEL TOWARD HEAD, WITH GREATEST THICKNESS APPROXIMATELY 22CM FROM HEAD. TAPERED AT END. THREE BLACK BANDS PAINTED AROUND CENTRE OF POLES, TWO OF WHICH ARE SPACED CLOSELY TOGETHER. BURNED INTO WOOD BETWEEN BANDS IS "SAMSON RAIL GRIPPER CAR MOVER MFG. BY ROWELL MFG CO. APPLETON WISCONSIN". WOOD IS DRY AND CRACKING, WITH VARNISH WORN CONSIDERABLY.
- Subjects
- MINING & MINERAL HARVESTING T&E
- Historical Association
- COAL MINING
- History
- FOUND BY DONOR IN MINE ON HIS SUMMER PROPERTY IN THE BEAVER MINES AREA. MINE WAS CLOSED AFTER WWII DUE TO LOW GRADE OF COAL. ITEM SALVAGED BY DONOR PRIOR TO HIS RETIREMENT FROM U OF L (PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR) TO THE WEST COAST IN 1996.
- Catalogue Number
- P19960010009
- Acquisition Date
- 1993-06
- Collection
- Museum
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