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Shoe
Object/Artifact
Infant’s shoes with square toes, tongues and lappets, laced with white silk ribbon - perhaps first for walking. Entirely hand stitched, made of fine red flannel decorated with scattered tiny embroidered “+s” in white silk. Eges of sections bound with white silk before joining. Lined with napped cotton, white kid soles.
G2004.077
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1835 - 1850
infant
shoe
wool
square toe
hand stitched
flannel
embroidered
kid sole
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