Harness for Guide Dog
notes: label: Description
content: Established in 1929 by Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis (1886–1946), an American dog breeder and philanthropist, The Seeing Eye was the first guide dog school in the United States. In 1990, to commemorate its 10,000th student, that organization donated this harness to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: Dorothy Harrison Eustis, “The Seeing Eye,” The Saturday Evening Post (Nov. 5, 1927).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Philanthropy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0381.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0381.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0381
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Harness, Guide Dog
label: Object Name
content: guide dog harness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: harness: 25 cm x 28 cm x 61 cm; 9 13/16 in x 11 in x 24 in
label: Measurements
content: leash: 18 1/2 in x 9 in x 5/8 in; 46.99 cm x 22.86 cm x 1.5875 cm