The 1930s were a study in opposites: lean years and exuberant evenings, repaired shoes and polished dance floors. These ...
Anne Kingston: The Bata Shoe Museum’s newest exhibit reminds us of the human ability to create amid deprivation and turmoil You might think an exhibit titled “WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era ...
When the shoe-shop industry was a shoe "empire," it was part of an interwoven pattern of Newburyport's and surrounding towns' shoe factories. Even the towns had shoe factories manufacturing new ...