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Slippers

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pair of woman's slippers of white silk satin, lined with white linen and white kid leather, and bound with white silk ribbon. Very narrow white silk ribbon ties attached at sides for ties. Paper label attached to one insole at instep. Squared toe; flat, straight sole. Hand sewn.

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G97.100a-b

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Merritt, Ira

Maker

1835 - 1850

19th Century

Early 19th Century

Label

Insole of one shoe

IRA MERRITT, / Ladies’ French / SHOEMAKER, / 158 1/2 Bowery / between [Br]oome and / Spring Sts. N.Y.

Center of one sole

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Pen

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