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Culture:Spanish
Title:child's shoes or boots
Date Made:1875-1895
Type:Footwear
Materials:textile: leather
Place Made:Spain; Madeira
Measurements:overall: 5 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 14.605 x 4.445 x 13.335 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2000.47.2
Credit Line:John W. and Christiana G. P. Batdorf Fund
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Pair of child's Madeira boots which descended in the Rufus King family. A note with the boots reads "from/Madeira / March 1885 / from Royalty, heirs / settled in Augusta, Maine." These boots were typical objects purchased by tourists after about 1850. The boots feature a turned down boot cuff and a flat sole; and a seam dividing the top and bottom halves of the upper, a CB seam on top half, and a side seam on the bottom half. Rufus King (life dates) was the uncle of Maine schoolgirl Eliza Southgate (life dates).

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