Cutting Leather for High Quality Shoes, Massachusetts

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Keystone View Company

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1905

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This slide depicts a factory where leather is being prepare as materials for mass producing shoes. The idea for mass producing shoes began in 1750 when John Adam Dagyr settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he set up workshops where several craftsmen would continuously create shoes to fill merchants’ demands. The shoe making industry would surge in Massachusetts in the Nineteenth Century as new innovations such as the creation of John Brooks Nichols’ leather stitching machine in 1851 were adopted by shoe manufacturers to keep up with increasing demands.

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