Online Collections Database

Shoe

Object/Artifact

Black patent leather ankle-strap shoes; variable machine-stitched ribbon edging, high straight square-cut vamp; straights with rounded-square toes, back seam. Black round shoe-buttons. Evidence of attached bow or the like on vamp. White cotton lining; inked scribble on sole: 29/EM (?). 5” long.

G89.137

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1855

shoe

patent

ankle strap

leather

straights

child

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