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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
956-12
Date(s)
- 1935-02 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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George Miller, Jr, a shoemaker at the Bone-Dry Shoe Manufacturing Company factory in Tacoma, 2115 Pacific Ave., used a heavy duty industrial sewing machine in February, 1935, to sew the welt and insole to the upper of a boot. For nearly 40 years, craftsmen and craftswomen at Bone-Dry produced "corks", the standard footwear for loggers, and various other styles of boots and shoes. The Bone-Dry factory building is now home to McGranahan Architects. TPL-8549
Bone-Dry Shoe Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma); Shoemakers; Shoe industry--Tacoma; Shoemaking--Tacoma; Factories--Tacoma--1930-1940;