Pair of nurse's shoes worn by Pauline Brown Payne
Object Details
- Date
- 1944
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Worn by
- Pauline Brown Payne, American
- Description
- White pair of shoes fastened with white laces in a wingtip style. Shoes covered in white shoe polish. Shoes have a slight heal with sole guards added. The heals have the brand name in the center [WINGFOOT/GOODYEAR].
- Topic
- African American
- Clothing and dress
- Education
- Labor
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Women
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Clothing-Historical
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 050
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Pauline Brown Payne
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.90.2.3ab
- Type
- shoes (footwear)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Medium
- leather metal cloth
- Dimensions
- 2013.90.2.3a: 4 × 3 1/2 × 10 1/8 in. (10.2 × 8.9 × 25.7 cm)
- 2013.90.2.3b: 4 × 3 1/2 × 10 in. (10.2 × 8.9 × 25.4 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2013.90.2.3ab
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