2000.138.1

c.1925
14 in HIGH x 3.75 in WIDE
(35.56 cm HIGH x 9.52 cm WIDE)
Gift of Marcia Gerin
2000.138.1

"Original", Chippewa Shoes, Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co., Chippewa Falls, Wis.

This pair of oiled dark brown leather hiking boots (with laces -- eyelets and hooks -- up the front) evidently were worn only once by Nelda H. Rehfuss on a backpacking trip in the Quartz Mountains of Northern California around 1925. A: Right boot; B: left boot, with the black and yellow label stitched inside the top of the tongue.

Used: Nelda H. Rehfuss | Adult | Female | Hiking | Quartz Mountains

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