Artifact of the Week – September 1, 2016

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September 1 2016

Details of a sanitary privy with instructions for making your own.

This magazine article is part of the Matthews Collection at Old Independence Regional Museum.  The article provides details about the sanitary privy and gives instructions for making your own.  The ad explains that “the device has been in constant operation in workrooms on the main floor of the Hygienic Laboratory at Washington for eight months.”  The pamphlet is dated from July 12, 1910 to April 1, 1911.

 

 

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