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Thanks Roberta: Yes, I have quite a bit of contemporary ads, catalogs, journal articles, and textbooks; thank you Google books. I am preparing a proposal to examine and record some actual belts in a museum collection. As far as I know these artifacts have not been identified in any archaeological collection and given the apparent numbers that were sold I have concluded that they are probably being collected but miss-identified. They are so far outside of our collective memory and so delicate that does not seem farfetched to think that the fragments at least are being missed. I wanted to make sure that none had been identified before I said so; after all just because I failed to find any mention does not mean that no one has. So I thought I would ask HSTARCH, I know a lot of people lurk here even when they don't post very much. I thought I would put that collective inquiry to work.
Originally I thought that the category of the material culture of sexual hygiene would be limited to contraception and the treatment of venereal disease, but I was very wrong. I hope to have my research complete by the end of the year, if you are interested I will post something on HSTARCH and I will share the results. I have been the lucky recipient of some great research from HSTARCH and I would be glad to pass it on.
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Subject: Re: electric power belts
You may already know of this reference, but I have found The Great Patent Medicine Era by Adelaide Hechtlinger (Galahad Books, New York, 1970) to be both useful and entertaining. Electric belts are illustrated on pages 168-173.
Roberta S. Greenwood, RPA
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