Shoe Collection (page 5)

Algerian Shoeshine Boy. Date: circa 1907

A pretty girl adjusts her shoe on a bollard
"...now the Boys away!" pretty girl adjusting her shoe on a bollard (revealing bright blue stockings and a frilly petticoat) as she heads out for a night on the town.... Date: 1910

State of Oklahoma, USA - Horse Shoe Curve Arbuckle Mountains
State of Oklahoma, USA - Horse Shoe Curve in the Arbuckle Mountains, North of Ardmore. Date: circa 1940

A selection of ancient Greek and Roman sandals
A selection of ancient Greek and Roman shoes and sandals. BCE

Start-rite shoes advertisement, 1961
Advertisement for Start-rite shoes of Norwich, THE choice of classic shoe for children (the one bar style seen at the bottom of this advert is still being sold in various colours today)

Foot x rays showing damage done by wearing high heels
A double page spread from The Sketch reporting on the unnatural stresses put on the feet by the wearing of high heels, which had been banned by the French medical profession being bad for the feet

Lace spat for women 1913
A fleeting fashion of 1913, spats for ladies and in this case, one made from lace. Date: 1913

Victorian Boots and Shoes

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Spanker!"
Yachting Terms Illustrated - " A Spanker!" A housewife reacts with furious anger to the indiscretions of her younger son, who has spilt black ink all over her pressed white tablecloth

Advert for Dickins & Jones crocodile and lizard womens shoes
Fashion says skin shoes for Autumn. 1927

Workers at Finns Shoe Factory, Penzance
Rows of women working at sewing machines at Finns Shoe Factory - Penzanze, Cornwall

Ancient Footwear / Diderot
A selection of ancient and not so ancient footwear including various styles of sandal (possibly Greek & Roman), also over-shoes & what looks like a shoe of the C16th (fig.25)

Last and boots on a Christmas and New Year card
Cobbler's last and boots on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of slippers with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Scotsman with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card -- First Foot. Date: circa 1890s

Chicks in a blue shoe on an Easter postcard
Chicks in a blue shoe with forgetmenots on an Easter postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Charles H. Baber ladies footwear 1929
Elegant ladies footwear for widths - all fittings made to the specification of your foot. 1929

Advert for London Shoe Company 1898
A selection of victorian boots, real whale skin for shooting, ladys field boot made from tan or blacking calf, button or lace, smart toe brogues

Soho, London - 25 Peter Street W1 - H Brahame shoe repairs (later demolished). 1973

Five people standing outside a house
Five people in smart clothes standing outside a house. circa 1920s

Manfield shoes advertisement
Shoe advertisement for Manfield, showing a selection of shoe fashions for 1929. Date: 1929

New rolling machine for making horse shoe nails, patented by Messrs. Huggett. The manufacture of horseshoe nails by machinery, instead of forging them by hand

Advert for Fortnum and Mason, mens shoes 1935
Mens special soft leather shoes, for all actions. Date: 1935

Middle Ages. Latvia. Footwear. Riga. 12th-13th century
Middle Ages. Baltic area. Latvia. Footwear. Riga. 12th-13th century. Booties, baby shoes, spurs for ice. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Two Saints make shoes being tempted by the devil. Engraving

W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, Northampton, UK
W Barratt & Co Ltd factory, making department, Northampton, UK. mid-20th century

W Barratt & Co Ltd shoe catalogue, childrens shoes. mid-20th century

W Barratt & Co Ltd shoe catalogue, shoes and slippers. mid-20th century

Advert for American Shoe Company 1909
Bargains in boots and shoes, for clearance for spring goods. 1909

Procession, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire
Procession, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, near Stretford, Lancashire, England. Showing W Beardow - Shoe & Bootmaker ands Gregson - Gents Outfitter, Hatter & Hosier Date: 1910s

Blitz in London -- Shoe Lane, WW2
Blitz in London -- men at work with hosepipes in Shoe Lane, City of London, during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Moscow State Circus in Cornwall
Members of the Moscow State Circus performing near St Austell in Cornwall. Date: 1970s

German land mines by G. H. Davis
German land mines: an important weapon used on a large scale by retreating German armies during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Mens work shoes 1924
American clothing catalogue, showing a seletion of mans work shoe with solid leather heel, full grain inner sole, oak middle sole and chrome outer sole. Date: 1924

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1936
Shoes for the cruise from the worlds most beautiful shoe store. In the minds of smart women the new Dolcis super shoe store has in one month become the Rendezvous of fashion lovers. Its visitors

Nursery Rhyme Characters, including humpty dumpty, the Queen of Hearts, the Old Woman in the Shoe, the cow who jumped over the moon, the cat and the fiddle

Diagram of scouting knots -- Reef Knot, Sheet Bend, Bowline, Middlemans Knot, Sheepshank. Other items are three kinds of camp candlesticks, a camp toothbrush, a camp fork

Advert for Delman shoes 1937
Advertisement for Delman shoes. In step with the season... A selection of high heeled summer shoes. Date: 1937

Turanganui Public Library, Gisborne, New Zealand, sitting on top of a huge lower-level Shoe Shop (R Hannah & Co. Ltd.) Date: circa 1910s

Stout Lady & Corset
A stout matron admires her ample figure once it has been shoe-horned into a corset. Her maid, holding a petticoat, looks on. Date: 1910

Bat / Greater Horseshoe / Nl
Greater horse-shoe bat

Dolcis Advert 1931
Advertisement for Dolcis shoes including: golf shoes, a Derby sports shoes & court shoes in bright exotic colours

Cinderella Flyer for the Grand Theatre in Derby
Cinderella. The entire front page of a four page flyer for the Grand Theatre in Derby, Christmas 1937. " Oswald Cray presents the most glorious pantomime ever staged in Derby"

South Street, Eastbourne, Sussex
South Street, viewed from Gildridge Road, Eastbourne, Sussex. 1870

Pantomime at Covent Garden: Cinderella 1876
Cinderella - The Butterflys Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast. 1876

Cobblers on the street, Delhi, India
Cobblers on the street in Delhi, India. Date: circa 1920

Advert for Raouls French footwear 1911
Elegant chic comfortable womens footwear. Date: 1911

Police officers on parade, Albany, USA
Police officers on parade with batons drawn, North Pearl Street, Albany, New York State, USA. circa 1908

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