Child's dress clog, Japan, 1908
date: label: date made
content: 1908
notes: label: Description
content: This is a child’s dress clog bought in Tokyo, Japan, in 1908. The shoes have double soles; the lower piece is 1 ½” tall and made of solid wood with a cut-out arch and made to be slipped to the toe. There is a metal toe plate underneath. The upper sole is made of straw and features a heavy ankle strap of rope covered with faded grey velvet. These shoes were collected by Frank G. Carpenter over the duration of 40 years of world travel. They were donated to the museum by his daughter, Francis Huntington, in 1926. The collection of shoes amassed by Carpenter provides not only unique examples of footwear around the globe, but the increasingly globalized landscape of the turn of the century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
label: source
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frances Huntington
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.2875
label: catalog number
content: A.2875
label: accession number
content: 93542
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Child'S Dress Clog
label: Object Name
content: Shoes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: one shoe: 2 in x 3 in x 7 in; 5.08 cm x 7.62 cm x 17.78 cm