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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1911
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2014.0001.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Wright's Health Underwear Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- New York, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.6 cm
- Width
- 10.8 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Wright
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- New York
Context
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1911
- Canada
-
Similar ads can be found in Canadian newspapers and magazines of the same period for the same purpose (ie: Demonstrates the use of airplanes in ads of the period to indicate modernity in unrelated products). - Function
-
Advertisement for Wright's Health Underwear Company, 1911. Demonstrates the use of airplanes in ads of the period to indicate modernity in unrelated products. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Proper front: "The WRIGHT/ Underwear for Every Man/ Be good to your skin and wear/ WRIGHT'S Spring-Needle Ribbed UNDERWEAR/ Fits any figure perfectly, yet always springs back to shape. Very springy and elastic. Holds its/ shape indefinitely and outwears ordinary underwear. Can't shrink. The best-fitting, best-wearing/ and best-looking underwear made. "The Spring is the Thing."/ The Non-Stretching Neck (pat. appld. for) always hugs snug./ All weights for all seasons. Made of wool, fine Egyptian cotton, or cotton-and-wool, in various colours./ Highest quality at moderate prices - $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 for Shirts and Drawers; $1.50 to $4.00 for Union Suits. If not at/ dealer's, send his name and we'll see you are supplied./ Write for booklet showing samples of fabrics./ WRIGHT'S HEALTH UNDERWEAR CO./ Makers of the famous Wright's Health Underwear (made of many tiny loops so/ interwoven that they will not mat) and Wright's Spring-Needle Ribbed Underwear./ 73 Franklin St., NEW YORK"/ On proper back: one advertisement: "Plexo/ Suspenders/ For the/ Man of Action"/ and a partial one: "E. ROSENFELD & CO., DEPT. F./ BALTIMORE, Md"
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Wright's Health Underwear Co., Advertisement, circa 1911, Artifact no. 2014.0001, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2014.0001.001/
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