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Shoe

Object/Artifact

Hand made slit-vamp tie shoes of brown kid with hard soles. Straights with wide waist and oval toes. No heels. Lined with PW cotton. Edges finished with brown kid piping. 3 pairs of punched holes. Back seam, no side seam. Each sole bears handwritten penned inscription: “1816 Mrs. John Langley first ran alone in these shoes.”

G2004.045

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1816

shoe

leather

hand made

hard sole

straights

no heel

kid piping

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