Object Details
- 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- Lockwood, Homer N.
- Credit Line
- Homer N. Lockwood
- 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
- Object Name
- punch card, railroad
