[Freak Patents]

[Freak Patents]

Digitized film strip
Negative

William M. Van der Weyde

Maker
American, 1870–1929

[Freak Patents]

Gelatin silver negative
6.5x8.5 in.
Gift of New York Public Library
1974.0056.0457
Inscriptions (on plaque) "No.238.741, A. Wilson, Life-Saving Chair Patented Mar.
8th 1881...Life preserver"

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