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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: June 27, 2012
Caption: A Bath wagon – or Bath chair
Additional Description: Grant was transported to the Eastern Outlook in a chair like this one on display in the Visitor Center.
It is a rolling chaise or light carriage with a folding hood which can be open or closed. James Heath (of Bath, England) invented the chair around 1750. It gained in popularity and by 1830 had become the conventional means of transporting the sick at popular spa resorts. The chairs could be mounted on three or four wheels and drawn or pushed by hand. If required, the Bath chair could be mounted on four wheels and drawn by a horse, donkey or small pony. Later versions were a type of wheelchair and pushed by an attendant rather than pulled by an animal. Some versions, such as this model, incorporated a steering mechanism for use by the invalid. This Bath wagon is a circa 1880 model manufactured by the W. Monk & Co. and on loan to the Friends by past Friends’ President, Lance Ingmire, of Saratoga Springs, NY.
Submitted: June 29, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p209885
File Size: 4.579 Megabytes

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