Button hook

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3 5/8 x 5/8 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A rusted metal button hook with an oval loop at the handle end embossed "Newark Shoe Saves A Dollar."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2627
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50421
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Button hook

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3 3/4 x 7/8 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A gray metal button hook with a peanut shaped loop at the handle end embossed "J. Glassberg,/ Short Vamp Shoes/ 225 W. 42nd St. New York".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2626
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50420
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Button hook

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3 3/4 x 7/8 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A gray metal button hook with a peanut shaped loop at the handle end embossed "Endicott Johnson,/Good Shoes."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2625
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50419
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Button hook

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
5 x 1 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A rusted metal button hook with a tear-drop shaped loop at the handle end embossed "H. A. Martin,/ Saratoga, New York".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2624
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50418
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shoe horn

Date: 
1890-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
6 3/4 x 1 5/8 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A silver colored metal shoe horn with a folding button hook at the handle end engraved "J.& J. Slater/ New York".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2623
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
50417
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shoe horn

Date: 
1920-1950
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
4 x 1 3/4 in.
Description: 
A silver colored metal shoe horn engraved "The Coward Shoe".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2622
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1950
eMuseum Object ID: 
50416
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Glass cutter

Date: 
1900-1940
Medium: 
Wood, metal
Dimensions: 
7 x 5/8 x 7/8 in.
Description: 
A metal glass cutter with a black wood handle, five variously spaced metal teeth for breaking the pane and and a block of metal on the end that rocks back and forth and has a diamond tip mounted on the end. The metal toothed part is engraved "Shoemaker/ Philadelphia", and the end block "Extra".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2621
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
50415
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Boot rubber sample

Date: 
1920-1940
Medium: 
Rubber
Dimensions: 
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A black sample of rain boot rubber made to look like part of the sole of a shoe. It is debossed with tiny raindrops and the word "Rainettes" repeated horizontally across the sample.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2620
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
50414
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Whistle

Date: 
1920-1940
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
2 5/8 x 7/8 in.
Description: 
A small metal whistle with a figure if a man in a green jerkin, red tights and a green peaked hat with a bow and arrow on a yellow background and in black the words "Robin Hood Shoes/ For Boys and Girls".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2618
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
50413
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Advertising kerchief

Date: 
1910-1940
Medium: 
Silk
Dimensions: 
20 x 20 in.
Description: 
White silk kerchief printed in red, black and rust with sixteen different pairs of women's shoes, including high button shoes, lace up boots and pumps surrounded by a border of numbers and letters indicating shoe sizes such as "6D 4B 7A". Signed "Brooke Cadwallader".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2619
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
50412
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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