Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop
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- 1910-1920
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Is part of the Spencer Historical Museum Collections. Richard Sugden Library, Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.spencerpubliclibrary.org/
Men at work making boots in the Isaac Prouty & Co. boot factory. The men are tacking and treeing the boots. Workers would put the tacks in their mouths, spit them onto the boots, and then hammer in the tacks. In 1820 Isaac Prouty began making boots out of his home. When his business became too large for his home he built a shop nearby. By 1872 the company employed three hundred workers inside the factory and as many outside. The second man from the left is Louis N..Beaudin.
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- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution
- Richard Sugden Library
- Collection
- Spencer Historical Museum Collections
- Subjects
- Isaac Prouty and Company, Spencer (Mass.): Shoe industry--Massachusetts--Spencer
Shoemakers
Footwear industry--Massachusetts--Spencer - Type
- image
- Format
- Photographs
- Language
- English
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- Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop. 1910-1920. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fb494r087. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- (1910-1920) Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fb494r087
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fb494r087>.