Shoes and character / by Elbert Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Contributor:

Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966.

Roycroft Shop.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Shoe Machinery Company.

Genre:

Books printed as advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

31 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece (portrait), folded plates ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1913.

Notes:

An appreciation of the United shoe machinery company.

This booklet talks about Sidney Winslow and how shoes effect character. Sidney Winslow was born in 1854 and died in 1817. With the insight he gained while working in his father's shoe factory, Winslow started his first shoe machine company in 1893, producing leather-buffing machines. With the profits from this business, Winslow combined resources with Gordon McKay and the Goodyear Company to create the United Shoe Machine Company in 1899, which had the largest market share in the shoe machinery business.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Cover design by Dard Hunter.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is bound in printed paper wrappers.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, p. 151

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-198-13

Other Format:

Online version: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Shoes and character.

OCLC:

3287052