Miniature Carved Shoes with Green Shoelace
DimensionsOverall: 2 x 2.4 x 6.5 cm
Credit LineGift of Irene Brown, London, Ontario, 1975
Object number1975.047.138
Label TextAccording to notes the donor kept about her shoe collection, this pair of miniature shoes were made in the Bowery District of New York City and purchased in a chapel there. From the late 19th century through to the mid 20th century, this was a rough and impoverished area of the city.
NameMiniature
c. 1878
c. 1900s
c. 1912