Historical Background Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1901 - 1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: This series consists primarily of printed publications describing the activities of United Shoe Machinery Corporation as well as the shoe industry.  Also included is documentation about past presidents for United Shoe such as clippings, photographs, and lists of names, and photocopies of printed materials about Jan E. Matzeliger (1852-1889), a shoemaker's apprentice from Dutch Guiana.  Matzeliger patented a lasting machine for shoemaking in 1891 (US Patent 274,207) which was ultimately used by the Consolidated Hand Method Lasting Machine Company. Consolidated Hand Method Lasting Machine Company merged with Goodyear Machinery Company and the McKay Shoe Company to become United Shoe Machinery Company.