Old Town Shoe Price Sheets [1930s-1960s]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.16
Description
Large folded sheets of paper on which are typed columns listing shoe patterns, price per pair, and price per case. These would have been used at Old Town Shoe, a workshop in operation in what is now River House until the 1960s. The papers were part of the estate of Edward Joseph "Bidou" Le Bretton and Lillian "Cite" Le Bretton, who were maintenance supervisor and hand stitcher respectively for this shoe workshop. On the back of the folded papers either "Bidou" or "Cite," (presumably) jotted several equations for sums, perhaps denoting accounts owed or orders completed. As an example of contemporary prices, pattern #3440 cost $0.66 per pair and $11.88 per case. It is not specified whether these are production costs, wholesale prices, or end-consumer retail prices, though the former two are most likely based on the papers' factory origin.