Gold Medal folding wheelchair
- Title
- Gold Medal folding wheelchair
- Accession Number
- 2010.10.1
- Accession Date
- March 16, 2010
- Accession Creator
- Joada Hiatt
- Depositor
- Betty Reynolds
- Description
- Folding wheelchair, likely a World War 2 field chair.
- Creator
- Gold Medal Folding Furniture, Racine, Wisconsin
- Format
- wood and canvas, with metal hardware
- Storage Location
- basement
- Curatorial Information
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Seat is made of two canvas straps; one has torn.
Original catalog sheet notes that "folding chairs were first made in 1932," with no indication of where that information came from. Gold Medal made folding camp chairs long before 1932; it's possible that they did not make wheelchairs until 1932, but we have no evidence of that. - Nomenclature
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Category 03: Personal Objects
Personal Gear
Personal Assistive Objects
Wheelchair
- Item sets
- GHM: artifacts
Part of Gold Medal folding wheelchair