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- GLC#
- GLC06362
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 24 April 1841
- Author/Creator
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Title
- [Patent for Ansel Thayer's improvement in the manner of manufacturing boots and shoes by substituting a metallic shank for that portion of the outsole which answers to the hollow of the instep and heel]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 40 cm, Width: 29.4 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Signed by Webster as Secretary of State. Countersigned by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents. Thayer's written description of his improvement is signed by Thomas P. Jones and George West as witnesses. Includes a one page diagram of Thayer's invention. Sealed and bound with light blue ribbon.
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