English: Watch belonging to Elisha Mitchell, which broke during his fatal fall verifying the measurements of Mount Mitchell in 1857. The watch thus shows the exact time of his death. Object belongs to the North Carolina Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Attribution: North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
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