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Woman's Leather Button-up Boots
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| Accession #: | 3280.3 |
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| Title: | Woman's Leather Button-up Boots |
| Object Type: | Boot |
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| Physical Description: | High-top button-up boot. Red-brown leather with red buttons, round toe with punchwork detail. |
| Description: | Larger, faster, easy-to-drive "touring cars" and an improving network of paved roads helped promote tourism as a leisure activity. Recreational motoring became a common pastime, offering new territory for fashionable clothing. Pictured in her elegant leather traveling suit at Mammoth Hot Springs, Vera Peasley Wickersham traveled from Spokane to Yellowstone Park in 1916. She and her husband wanted to experience the Park's stagecoach tours before the switch to motorized bus tours that year. Personal motorized vehicles were first admitted to Yellowstone in 1915, so Vera and her husband were also among the first Americans to drive their own car into the Park. |
| Category: | History |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Women (Women), Footwear (Personal Artifact->Clothing)
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| Dimensions: |
SIZE "
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| Materials/Techniques: |
leather (Material)
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| Marks/Inscription: |
"W. L. Douglas - Goodyear Welt - Brockton, Mass. U.S.A.," bottom
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Mr. Marvin Bailey, 1988 |
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