Leather Needles for Hand-Stitching Shoes (3) [1930s-1960s]
Utilitarian Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.14
Description
Three curved steel needles used in hand-stitching leather shoes. These would have been used at Old Town Shoe, a workshop that until its closure in the 1960s was located on Main St., Old Town, ME in what today is known as River House, a senior housing complex renovated in 1980. Penobscot Shoe Company (originally Philco Shoe Company, est. 1935) ran Old Town Shoe, so these needles were likely used in the production of their Old Maine Trotters. The Trotters brand passed to Phoenix Footwear Group when they acquired Penobscot Shoe Company in 2000.