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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.
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
11
Pen