weights and measures

Frog on a lotus pad, perhaps a weight

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Votive Counterweight (Menit) with Name of Queen Ahmose Nefertari

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Anubis Weighing the Heart, Tomb of Nakhtamun

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Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player

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Cubit measuring rod, Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bull's-Head Weight of 2 Deben - Public domain museum image. A statue o...

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Weight, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1550 -1070 BC

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Fragment of a Cubit Measuring Rod

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Weight in the shape of a duck - Public domain museum image. A stone sc...

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Seventy deben weight, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2040 – 1640 BC

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Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player

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Weight, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1550 -1070 BC

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Pounder, Egypt, Neolithic Period, 7000 - 4500 B.C.

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Six deben weight, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2040 – 1640 BC

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Bronze steelyard and weight, bronze

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Steelyard Rod with Weight and Hooks

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Copper-Alloy Balance Weight with a Cross in a Wreath

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Copper-Alloy Balance Weight with Cross in a Circular Border

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Copper-Alloy Balance Weight with Figures in an Architectural Setting

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Balance Weight with Monogram, copper alloy

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Byzantine Lead Ingot with Monograms

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Steelyard weight in the form of Athena - musical instruments

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Wooden Box with Bronze Balance Scale

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Ring Weight, Egypt, 9th Century CE (AD)

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Three Round Copper-Alloy Balance Weight with Cross

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Three Round Copper-Alloy Balance Weights with Crosses

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Measuring Cup, 9th century - Public domain museum image. A green glass...

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Three Round Copper-Alloy Balance Weights with Crosses

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Coin Weight, Egypt, Islamic Period, 642-1600 BCE

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Ring Weight, Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Weight, Islamic period - Public domain museum image. A stone vase with...

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Horary Quadrant, copper alloy, islamic art, Iran

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Coin Weight, Egypt, 14th Century CE (AD)

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Petrus Christus - A Goldsmith in his Shop

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Civliano consuli ac patricio Priscianus salutem

Print shows page of text on weights and measures, with illuminated borders.

Civliano consuli ac patricio Priscianus salutem

Print shows page of text on weights and measures, with illuminated borders. Illus. in: Carmen de ponderibus mensuris. [Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks... More

Asiento present hordenat a payon les responsions dels pezos e mezures ...

Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local tower and the vignet... More

Balance and weights with case, Bohemia

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Hans Speckaert - Fortitude and Justice

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Bartolomeo Ammanati - Justice, bronze, Europe

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Measure, 17th century, Staffordshire, England

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[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Symbola avreæ mensæ dvodecim nationvm. Francofvrti : typis A. Hummij, impensis Lucæ Iennis, 1617. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. ... More

Measure, 17th century - Public domain dedication museum photo

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Coin with Sign of Libra, India - Public domain photo of museum object

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Pillar barometer, copper alloy, Europe

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Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)

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Giovanni Battista Gaulli - Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice ...

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Gold-Covered Portable barometer, bronze, Europe, London, England

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Gold Weight, arts of africa oceania and the americas

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Measure, 18th century, Paris, France

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Edme Bouchardon - Design for a Medal

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Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage

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Design for a Statue of Justice with Sketches at Left and Above.

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Measure, London, England - Public domain dedication museum photo

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Scale for Gold Measurement, arts of africa oceania and the americas

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Photo of Measure, 18th century - Public domain dedication

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Gold Weight: Chief with Attendant

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Measure, 18th century (West Midlands)

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[Springs and devices for measuring their tension and strength]

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Photo of Measure, 19th century - Public domain dedication

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Halles centrales de Paris - aménagements du pavillon a la boucherie. P...

Detail shows site plan and side view the office for weighing meat in the meat market at Les Halles. Illus. in: Monographie des halles centrales de Paris, construites sous le regne de Napoléon III. et sous l'adm... More

Exercises of the Prussian Hercules: Will he or won't he be able to lif...

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A Country Store – Getting Weighed (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series...

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Steelyard & case - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a portable balance (also known as a stilyard) with tray at one end and counterweight suspended at the opposite end, also cords extending from the top of the bar for hanging the balance; includes c... More

Japanese scales - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a balance with a tray at each end suspended from a frame on a box containing a drawer. Unsigned, but probably by Kano, 1878. From "Trade & commerce; coins, etc." series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; ... More

The practical arithmetical series

42419 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Caxton Company, adver... More

Group of children carrying in their pecks to the "bushel man." We meas...

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Group of children carrying in their pecks to the "bushel man." We meas...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1112. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

[Frank G. Carpenter] on lighthouse wharf, Ketchikan - Frank G. Carpent...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

On lighthouse wharf, Ketchikan - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Showing how essential accurate measurements are. A "Demonstration team...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5069. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 49. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Showing how essential accurate measurements are. A "Demonstration team...

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[Matthew A. Donohue, inspector of weights and measures for the N. Y. D...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Thèbes. Hypogées. Divers bas-reliefs et fragmens.

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Dynastie V. Pyramiden von Giseh [Jîzah], Grab 26.

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Dynastie IV. Pyramiden von Giseh [Jîzah], Grab 86.

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Neues Reich. Dynastie XVII. El Kab [el-Kab], Grab 3.

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Neues Reich. Dynastie XVIII. Theben [Thebes]. a - e. aus Gräbern von...

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Neues Reich. Dynastie XVIII. a - f Felsengrotte von Abahûda; g. Grab...

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Neues Reich. Dynastie XX. Felsengrab zu Anîbe ['Aniba]: a. Westwand; ...

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Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long di...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1137. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Lucy ---- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1149. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1123. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

If you only drop a nickel in the slot

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1149. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long di...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1137. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Lucy ---- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1123. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Seventy deben weight, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2040 – 1640 BC

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Fragment of a Cubit Measuring Rod

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Six deben weight, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2040 – 1640 BC

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Weight, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1550 -1070 BC

A round stone with a red label, Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Votive Counterweight (Menit) with Name of Queen Ahmose Nefertari

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Bull's-Head Weight of 2 Deben - Public domain museum image. A statue o...

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Frog on a lotus pad, perhaps a weight

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Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player

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Pounder, Egypt, Neolithic Period, 7000 - 4500 B.C.

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Weight, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1550 -1070 BC

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Weight in the Shape of Liubo Game Player

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