Shoes

Object Details

See more items in: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series 2: Other Collection Divisions; Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series 2: Other Collection Divisions / 2.2: Stereographs

Sponsor: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF). Digitization of Series 2.2: Stereographs was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

Series Citation: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Series Rights: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Contents note: two, each showing a woman being fitted by a shoe salesman or cobbler; one copyrighted 1901 by B. L. Singley, published by Keystone View Co., captioned "Don't Get Above Your Business" (cat. #433); the other apparently from an earlier negative, although also mounted on a warped card, but unidentified. In the Keystone view, the man has a tape measure around the woman's leg above the ankle, and in the other picture, the tape is around the woman's foot. Both images are intended to be somewhat naughty or provocative, indicating the low humor which typifies some stereographs

Series Restrictions: Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs restricted due to fragile condition. Researchers should consult microfilm in NMAH library for 1880-1983 editions, drawer 692.