Singer Oil Can (Container Half) [1930s-1960s]
Utilitarian Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.12
Description
The bottom part of a steel Singer brand oil can, the dome-shaped container which would have held oil, missing its dispenser nozzle. This oil can would have been used at Old Town Shoe, a workshop located in the building on Main Street converted into senior housing in 1980 and now called River House. Old Town Shoe was run by Penobscot Shoe Company until its closure in the 1960s. Penobscot Shoe Company was founded in 1935 by Max Kagan and Philip W. Lown as Philco Shoe Company and sold in 2000 to Phoenix Footwear Group, which maintains a distribution center at 107 Main St., Old Town, ME.