Artificial Leg
date: label: date made
content: 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Joshua Monroe, “Artificial Leg,” U.S. Patent 49,038 (1865), half assigned to Jetur Gardiner. Monroe and Gardiner would later go into business, producing legs of “imperishable rawhide.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0273.03
label: accession number
content: 1978.0273
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0273.03
label: patent number
content: 49038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leg, prosthetic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 44 cm x 22 cm; 17 5/16 in x 8 21/32 in