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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