Knit-Rite Prosthetic Sock
notes: label: Description
content: Knit-Rite was established in Kansas City, Mo., in 1923 by Billy Isle (1885-1953), a local man who had lost a foot in train accident. making compression socks for amputees.
label: Description
content: Ref: Mrs. Loraine Isle Dillard, “THE STORY OF WILLIAM EDGAR ‘BILLY’ ISLE,” Orthopedic Prosthetic Appliance Journal (June 1959): 33-38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0010.04.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0010.04.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Envelope
label: Object Name
content: envelope, sock
label: Object Name
content: prosthetic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 26.9 cm x 21.5 cm x .5 cm; 10 9/16 in x 8 7/16 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 10 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; .635 cm x 26.9875 cm x 21.59 cm