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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Exercise Chair
Object Number
1939-04-3
Description
Round back arm chair; mahogany with red stain; solid plank seat; two iron handles attached to bar under seat enabling user to sit in chair, pull iron bars back and forth and exercise arms; pulling iron bars also lifts seat forward; straight front legs with back legs raked in reverse curve; box spring under seat with jointed iron mechanism; velvet red skirt around seat of chair hiding mechanism
Comment
Used by Theron and Lucy Sheldon Beach who lived in Sheldon House on North St. in Litchfield. Called an Anti-Dyspeptic Chair - accession folder has copies of advertisements extolling virtues of using chair
Category
Date Made
late 19th century
Dimensions
31" high to back x 16 1/2" high to seat x 27 1/2" wide x 17" deep
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