Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear

 
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Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear
Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear
Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear
Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear

Saddlebags, Dr. H.B. Wear

Object number1983.120.00
DateUnknown Date
Mediumleather, metal
Dimensions31 x 8 x 4 in. (78.7 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
Terms
  • Saddlebag
  • Saddlebag
DescriptionPair of leather saddlebags used by Dr. H.B. (Hamilton Bradford) Wear. The bags are both badly worn and degraded. Brass clasp mechanism on the front flap of each bag. In the interior of one bag, there is a wood fram insert contained twelve small glass medical bottles. Dr. Wear served as a surgeon in the 17th Arkansas Infantry and may have used these bags during the war.

Biography on Dr. Wear from Goodspeed in notes field. Dr. Wear lived in Faulkner Co.
Status
Not on view
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