Hand-I-Hold Babe Mits
date: label: Date made
content: after 1906
label: patent date
content: 1906-06-26
name: label: maker
content: R. M. Clark and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One pair aluminum and cotton cloth Hand-I-Hold Babe Mits in blue cardboard box. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “HAND-I-HOLD / Trade Mark / BABE MIT / R. M. CLARK & CO. Mfgr’s. / Newton Centre, Mass. / For Prevention of / Scratching, Sucking of Fingers, etc.”
label: Description
content: Ref: R. M. Clark & Co. ad in American Motherhood 23 (July 1906).
label: Description
content: R. M. Clark & Co. ad in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 155 (August 9, 1906): 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York
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: 1982.0492.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0492
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0492.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Anti Thumb-Sucking Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: anti thumb-sucking device: 15.5 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 6 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 7.9375 cm x 16.8275 cm