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A vintage postcard with the United Shoe Machinery factory in Beverly, Massachusetts Share of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, issued 4. May 1916. United Shoe Machinery Corporation (USMC) was a U.S.-based manufacturer of various industrial machinery, particularly for the shoe manufacturing industry and monopolized the American shoe machinery business. [1]
British United Shoe Machinery Ltd. (BUSM) was formed in England around the turn of the 20th century, as a subsidiary of the American United Shoe Machinery Company.For most of the 20th century, USM was the world's largest manufacturer of footwear machinery and materials, exporting shoe machinery to more than 50 countries. [1]
Christian Hess House and Shoemaker's Shop, also known as the Christian Hess Homestead and Weaver House, is a historic home and commercial building located at Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York. The house was built about 1783, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, banked, timber frame dwelling in a traditional New World Dutch style.
Woodcut of shoemakers from Frankfurt am Main, 1568. Two shoemakers in Vietnam in 1923. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]).
The Haines Shoe House is a shoe-shaped house in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, about two miles west of the borough of Hallam, on Shoe House Road near the Lincoln Highway. The house is 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, and 48 feet (15 m) long, and is visible from U.S. Route 30 (US 30).
Shoemakersville was named for the first settlers, Henry and Charles Shoemaker. [4] It was a thriving apparel manufacturing town. The Merit Underwear Company factory was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Shoemaker was born in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1843. [1] He was the second son of Mary Ann (née Brock) Shoemaker (1821–1891) and John Wise Shoemaker (1811–1863), who invested in anthracite coal industry in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. [2] His maternal grandfather was a coal operator of English and Scotch-Irish descent. [2]
Kenneth "Kenny" Shoemaker (September 7, 1929 - March 22, 2001) was an American dirt modified racing driver. Known as "The Shoe", he was a hired gun who piloted 78 different cars to over 150 wins, usually at venues within driving distance of his home because of his full time job.