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Subiaco Museum > Records

LEATHER BOOT: CHILDREN'S

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Current Exhibition: 50 Objects 50 Years

Museum Treasures

Overview

Worn brown leather boot with wooden sole.

Item has been dug up from the garden on 195 Townshend Road, Subiaco. Shows wear, holes and dirt build up. Eyelet holes for where the laces would have gone. Tongue of shoe inside. Sole made of wood with numerous nails and nail holes.

Historical information

From a collection of archaeological items found in the garden on 195 Townshend Road Subiaco

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2021.112.1

Item type

Material

Width

70 mm

Height or length

120 mm

Depth

170 mm

Keywords

COSTUME ACCESSORIES

Needs Conservation

Townshend Road [195], Subiaco

Museum Treasure

Statement of significance

Historical example of childrens leather footwear. Archaelogical.

50 Objects 50 Years
This children’s leather boot was unearthed while digging in the garden at 195 Townshend Road. While the boot shows the wear of having been buried for a long time, it is also preserved well enough to show many details of this historical footwear, from the leather uppers to the eyelet holes where laces were once placed, to the wooden sole attached with nails.

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Tuesday, 28 October, 2025

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