Suspensory
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1901
name: label: maker
content: Seabury & Johnson
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this suspensory read in part “SARATOGA / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / Mfgd by S. E. G. RAWSON CO. / SEABURY & / JOHNSON Succrs. N.Y.” Those on and in the lid of the cardboard box read in part “NEW STYLE / SARATOGA / SUSPENSORY / SEABURY & JOHNSON / NEW YORK, U.S.A / FACTORY EAST ORANGE, N.J.” Smith E. G. Rawson (1820-1879), of Saratoga, N.Y., showed suspensory bandages to the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1870, and obtained a patent on the form in 1878. By 1888 his firm had become S. E. G. Rawson & Co. By 1901, Seabury & Johnson had “succeeded to the business of S. E. G. RAWSON & CO., of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the original and universally renowned manufacturers of ‘Rawson’s U.S. Army’ and ‘Saratoga’ line of Suspensory Bandages, also Athletic Supporters (Jock Straps), Chest Protectors, etc., the transfer including all their Patents, Trade-Marks, Copy-Rights and Good Will.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Smith E. G. Rawson, “Improvement in Suspensory Bandages,” U.S. Patent 204,088 (May 21, 1878).
label: Description
content: Ad for Rawson’s Saratoga and U.S. Army Suspensory in Leslie’s Weekly 86 (March 17, 1898): 175.
label: Description
content: Seabury & Johnson notice in Montreal Pharmaceutical Journal 12 (1901): 144.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, East Orange
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Robert J. Locurto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0160.15
label: accession number
content: 1980.0160
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0160.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Supporter
label: Object Name
content: supporter, male
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (supporter material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (clips material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 17.4625 cm x 13.6525 cm