J.O. Whitehouse's Boot & Shoe Factory, Poughkeepsie NY – Antique Wall Art
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Step back in time with J.O. Whitehouse's Boot & Shoe Factory, Poughkeepsie NY, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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J.O. Whitehouse's Boot & Shoe Factory, Poughkeepsie NY
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J.O. Whitehouse's boot and shoe factory stood in Poughkeepsie, a river city on the east bank of the Hudson, and the name on the building marks it as one of the many workshops that made the Hudson Valley an important center of footwear manufacture in the nineteenth century. Factories like this one typically combined cutting rooms, stitching floors and finishing areas under one roof, turning leather into finished boots for a national market. Views of such plants are useful to historians because they show the scale of industrial work, the window-heavy brick construction favored for light, and the crowds of workers who made the local economy run.
| Original scan | 8,654 × 6,831 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02083u |
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