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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:American
Title:shoe
Date Made:1850-1872
Type:Footwear
Materials:leather (hide); wooden pegs; flax or linen sewing thread; cotton lacings
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Conway area
Measurements:Overall: 4 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 10.8 cm x 26.7 cm x 8.9 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2018.22
Credit Line:Gift of Kathryn Kearns and Scott Hoffman
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Man's wooden-pegged shoe (brogan or bootee), hide leather, cotton lacing, flax or linen sewing thread. Conway, Massachusetts, area. The shoe illustrates the kind of utilitarian footwear owned and worn by men around the time of the Civil War. Often, practical clothing and accessories like this example do not survive in great numbers, being worn until they were thrown out.

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