Collection Highlights
Central Park Competition Entry No. 29
Date:
March, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.233
Medium:
Ink and Wash
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Shoe horn
Object Number:
2002.1.2631k
Date:
1890-1930
Medium:
Metal, cloth
Dimensions:
5 1/8 x 1 5/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
One sample from a green velvet saleman's sample kit displaying thirty five shoe horns, button hooks and combination shoe devices of different styles. A gray metal shoe horn with a folding flat button hook handle engraved "Powell's/ B. B. Shoe Store/ Shoes of Merit,/ Olympia, Wash."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
