Old Town Shoe Work Ledgers (2) [1930s-1960s]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.10
Description
Two tear-away ledgers for shoe orders, used at Old Town Shoe during the 1930s-1960s. They were produced by Lowell Stationery Co., Inc., 735 Broadway, Lowell, Mass. The cover page reads, "Slips for each day's work must be placed in box every morning. Have your number and total appear on slip. Case numbers must be listed in order. ANY ACCIDENTS, no matter how slight, MUST be reported at once to the office." The tear-away slips within would be used to track hand-stitched shoe orders. Old Town Shoe was a workshop on Main Street, located in the former Old Town Woolen Mill and converted into the senior housing complex River House in 1980. One ledger contains an accounting totals page identifying it as belonging to Edward Joseph "Bidou" LeBretton Sr., who was a maintenance supervisor for several Penobscot Shoe Company workshops, including Old Town Shoe until its closure in the 1960s.