Belt
Belt
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- Description
- Strip of white cotton with metal snaps. The belt, probably homemade, was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- belt, midwife's kit
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- metal (buttons material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/8 in x 31 in x 2 3/4 in;.3175 cm x 78.74 cm x 6.985 cm
- overall: 79.7 cm x 6.1 cm; 31 3/8 in x 2 13/32 in
- ID Number
- 2012.0128.14
- accession number
- 2012.0128
- catalog number
- 2012.0128.14
- Credit Line
- Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
- subject
- Medicine
- Women's Health
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Midwife Kit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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