Object Details
- Description
- Cornelius Hinds used this channel knife as a shoemaker in Templeton, Massachusetts during the mid-19th century. The knife is part of a large accession documenting the numerous tools necessary to make shoes by hand before the mechanization of the industry. The shoemaker used a variety of knives to cut the raw leather by hand and mold it into the necessary shapes to make a shoe.
- Credit Line
- Miss Deborah M. Russell
- 1840 - 1860
- ID Number
- AG.A.6312A
- accession number
- 153037
- catalog number
- A006312A
- Object Name
- knife
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in; 15.24 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Industry & Manufacturing
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_868571
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-d689-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
