Back Brace
| Title: | Back Brace. |
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| Name(s): |
Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Sciences Library. Special Collections & Archives, contributor VCU Libraries, publisher |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Medical artifact | |
| Date Created: | 1920-1925 | |
| Extent: | 55 cm. x 25 cm. x 23 cm. | |
| Physical description: | Back brace with leather padding and steel framework. Designed to fit the dimensions of an adolescent child, the brace is composed of three thick steel bars to which leather is clamped at the bottom and fitted with leather straps set with adjustable holes. The steel frame of the brace can be lowered or raised to fit with the use of screws. Back side of brace has an extra pad attached to the steel piece which would fit behind the spine, and the top of the device is fitted with a padded leather chin rest and head rest, which can also be adjusted through the use of screws. | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 1998.5.1 (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/157 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Brace |
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| Subject(s): |
Time Period: Nineteenth century Braces |
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| LC Classification: | R856.A5 | |
| Rights Statement URL: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ | |
| Rights Statement: | In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted | |
| Rights: | This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required. | |
| Is Part Of: | Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection. | |
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