Object Details
- associated person
- Lockwood, Homer N.
- Description
- These four stock cards bearing railroad conductors’ punch marks were collected by Homer N. Lockwood. The inscription on one card explains: “These four cards, punched, I carried with me throughout the United States, thence to Mexico afterwards around the world, and thus preserved punch marks of the Railroad Conductors of the Globe.” One card is autographed by President Benjamin Harrison, its reverse by President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico. Another carries the autograph of Sanford B. Dole, a Hawaiian Islands lawyer and jurist.
- Bequest of Homer N. Lockwood, 1913
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Homer N. Lockwood
- ID Number
- PL.014507
- catalog number
- 14507
- accession number
- 56368
- Object Name
- punch card, railroad
- Physical Description
- black (overall color)
- paper (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 2 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Souvenir Nation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_523985
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-4234-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
