Color & Illus GOODYEAR Welt Shoe Exhibit ad at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Description

"Goodyear Welt Shoes" Handout in Shoe and Leather Building
at the Chicago 1893 World's Fair
- 6 x 3.5 inches
smooth stiff cream wraps
with
brown and blue print
and graphic in color of their
exhibit pavilion
(cover shown); back cover with photo illustration of their working
shoe factory
upstairs in the
Shoe and Leather building
(shown). Akron, OH:
Goodyear
,
1893. 12 pages not including covers printed on smooth buff paper (title page and inside cover shown).
Stapled
(shown). The text with illustrations show the
entire process of welting
a shoe (2 shown).
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Supplemental Information:
Charles Goodyear
may be best known for inventing the
vulcanization of rubber
now famous for making their passenger and race vehicle tires - buts that was not until 1898 founding of the company and its iconic winged foot logo. He also invented a
machine method for welting shoes
, i.e., sewing the uppers to the lowers. Welting stitching
allowed resoling
and was done by hand from the 1500s but was expensive and could not be scaled up. Goodyear solved that in
1868
as explained in this
souvenir from the WCE
. Welting is still used today yielding comfortable, water resistant, high quality footwear. So both inventions are
still in wide use today
! Success! [incidentally, the U.S. Rubber Co. in Connecticut still uses the Goodyear honorific name in the making of their rubber boots.]
- Condition:
Good. Covers and hinge fine (shown). Staples okay with one rusted (shown). No page marks, tears, or stains (shown). Little edge wear (shown). Corners cut off badly, but not affecting text (shown). Otherwise, a fine original.
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