Slave shoes
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- Created Date
- circa 1850
- Description
Pair of slip-on clog style shoes handmade from leather, wood and ferrous metal. The base of each shoes is carved from a single piece of wood, to which the leather upper is attached my means of ferrous metal wire, thread and stitched. The leather uppers are each cut from a single piece of leather. The upper of each shoe has a decorative patter at top center front made up from small pin sized pricks marks.
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Location
- United States
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- LeatherWood (plant material)Metal
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2014, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Slave shoes. circa 1850. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2288. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (circa 1850) Slave shoes. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2288
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2288>.