Restraint Sheet for Mental Patient
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Hooper, James M.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This heavy canvas human restraint is a straight jacket. Straight jackets have been used at least since the 18th century to immobilize psychiatric patients as a method of therapy, punishment, or to protect the patient and others from harm.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12355
label: accession number
content: 285123
label: catalog number
content: M-12355
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet, restraint
label: Object Name
content: restraint, bed
label: Other Terms
content: sheet, restraint; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 19 in x 20 in; 25.4 cm x 48.26 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 94 3/4 in x 36 5/8 in x 3/16 in; 240.665 cm x 93.0275 cm x .47625 cm