Crutch
date: label: Date made
content: 1862
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Joshua Whittemore, “Improvement in Crutches,” U.S. Patent 36,743 (Oct. 21, 1862). Joshua Whittemore (b. 1814) was a Bostonian who moved to South Reading (now Wakefield) in 1849, lost a leg in a railroad accident, and designed a spring crutch. He displayed a patent elastic crutch at the 1874 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association and took home a bronze medal.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wakefield
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine thru Mr. Creston Herold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.309032.06
label: accession number
content: 309032
label: catalog number
content: 1974.309032.06
label: accession number
content: 1974.309032
label: patent number
content: 36,743
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crutch, Patent Model
label: Object Name
content: crutch, patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 25 3/8 in x 5 in; 3.175 cm x 64.4525 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 5 in; 63.5 cm x 12.7 cm