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Bell Shoes
The bell symbol on the sole indicates that this pair of walking shoes was made in the J. & T. Bell factory at Montreal. A label is not necessary to recognise a machine-made shoe: tiny regular stitches reveal its manufacture by machine rather than by a craftsman.
The Bell advertisement proudly proclaim the shoe factory’s size and modernity.
Bell’s was just one of hundreds of shoe factories in Quebec and Ontario at the end of the nineteenth century.
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