Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop
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Title
Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop
Subject
Isaac Prouty and Company, Spencer (Mass.): Shoe industry--Massachusetts--Spencer; Shoemakers; Footwear industry--Massachusetts--Spencer
Description
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.
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1910-1920?
Relation
Is part of the Spencer Historical Museum Collections. Richard Sugden Library, Spencer, Massachusetts. http://www.spencerpubliclibrary.org/
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
Image
Files
Collection
Citation
“Workers in the Isaac Prouty boot shop,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 23, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1162.
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