Prosthetic Peg Leg
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
name: label: maker
content: W. M. Hawkins
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for William Minton Hawkins, “Improvement in Artificial Legs,” U.S. Patent 129,340 (July 16, 1872). Hawkins lived in Elba, Alabama.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0119.26
label: accession number
content: 1997.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0119.26
label: patent number
content: 129,340
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Peg Leg
label: Object Name
content: leg, prosthetic
label: Object Name
content: peg leg, prosthetic
label: Object Name
content: peg leg, artificial
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (leg material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (leg tip material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 31.115 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 16 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 40.64 cm x 8.255 cm