Studio photograph of a young girl wearing a pair of artificial legs. The legs
were manufactured by James Gillingham (1839-1924), a boot- and shoemaker based
in Chard, Somerset. Gillingham first started making artificial limbs after a
local man lost an arm firing a cannon for a celebratory salute in 1863. He then
began making prostheses on a permanent basis and Chard eventually became a major
centre of the British artificial limb industry.
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