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Aug. 18, 1916, 
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~~ North Shore. 
~ laid in Salem and Lynn 
and the center of the 
industry has never mov- 
ed very far away. To- 
_ day the greatest manu- 
factory of machinery 
_ for the making of shoes 
is located in Beverly. The 
United Shoe Machinery 
Co. with its big fac- 
tory in Beverly has its 
main offices in Boston 
and maintains there an 
unique museum contain- 
ing samples of footwear 
of all lands and times. 
One of the recent addi- 
tions to its collection of 
relics of the early days 
of shoemaking isa 
group of four wooden 
The old Putnam 
factory, which is prob- 
ably the most ancient 
shoe shop in existence, 
is still standing a few 
yards north of the Put- 
nam mansion, near the 
junction of the New- 
buryport turnpike and 
Maple street, says Three 
‘Partners, the  publica- 
mone: the U. S. M. 
Athletic association. Its 
age is uncertain, but it 
is mentioned in the cen- 
sus of 1789 and was 
certainly considered an 
old house as long ago as 
1835. The general arch- 
itectural features of the 
building lead experts to 
assign to it a date not 
later than 1740. 
Daniel Putnam, 
born in the old home- 
stead near by, began 
business in the house soon after 1798 and continued there 
until 1835, being succeeded by his two sons, Daniel and 
E. T. Slattery’s beautiful shop at Magnolia held its 
fall opening on Tuesday with a complete and beautiful 
showing of Fall and Winter goods, which included a 
magnificent display of furs, fur coats and wraps, beauti- 
ful dresses of the latest modes, in serges and satin and 
serge, motor coats, and accessories for every occasion. 
A feature of the opening was the using of the splendid 
electric lighting fixtures, which have just been completed. 
The French toned gray of the indirect lighting globes with 
The foundation of the industry was 
patterns for cutting out uppers 
Putnam shoe factory at Danvers between 1798 and 1835. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Relics of Early Shoemaking 
Old Time Wooden Shoe Patterns 
Found in Factory at Danvers 
Old Putnam Shoe Factory at Danvers 
and soles, used in the 
Old Time Wooden Shoe Patterns Found in the Putnam Factory 
conventional designs in gold are most effective. 
lights are used in all of the display cases, while at inter- 
vals about this fine French shop are pretty silver electric 
lamps with imported shades in French tones of gray. 
THE first shoemaking in America was done along the Ahira, when the name of the firm became Daniel F. Put- 
nam and Co. The father of George Peabody, the famous 
millionaire and philan- 
thropist, for whom the 
town of Peabody was 
named, is said to have 
been an apprentice in 
the old shop during the 
management of Daniel 
the elder. 
The patterns are in 
strange contrast to the 
thin metallic or card- 
board patterns used to- 
day, varying as they do 
in thickness from a 
quarter to five-eights of 
an inch, and being pro- 
tected by a narrow strip 
of half round copper, a 
contrivance for which a 
patent was taken ont at 
the time. 
It is interesting to note in this connection that the 
shoemaking industry in Salem 
started in 1629, when 
Thomas Beard came 
over from England with 
a stock of leather and a 
kit of shoemakers tools. 
Beard came under con- 
tract to make shoes for 
the colonists and was 
engaged in the work 
when Philip Kirtland, 
the first shoemaker lo- 
cated in Lynn. Kirtland 
began making shoes in 
Lynn about 1839. He 
received a grant of 19 
acres of land as an in- 
ducement for locating in 
what is now “the shoe 
city.” Another incident 
connected with the early 
days of shoenaking was 
the establishing of a 
tannery for leather by 
Francis Ingalls in Lynn 
about the tire Kirtland 
opened his shop. Ingalls’ 
tannery consisted of a 
few shallow vats placed in the ground beside a stream 
and today no trace of this early venture remains. 
Electric 
Men who do things seldom moisten the cornerstone 
of an undertaking with portions of grog. 
Good judgment has often been termed cowardice. 
