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Shoe
Object/Artifact
Slit vamp shoes, green Russia leather with gold stamped vine scrollwork. Bound and tied with green cotton braid, hand stitched. Heelless, straights, rounded broad toes. One tag remains on a lace. Lined with glazed white cotton. No label. Paper label pasted on one sole: Mrs Fred M. White
G2002.126
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1840 - 1850
shoe
child
leather
Russia leather
stamped
hand stitched
straights