Pair of Japanese shoes. Rawhide sole with thin worked leather sewn on. Painted white on sides. Canvas inner shoe, outer shoe covered with embroidered red silk. Blue and green pansies with brown stems, knots of brown and cream. Brown paper strips interwov
Letter dated 7/15/1938 from Alice Ewing to Mr. Bausman states that the shoes are valuable '...because it was the time when Japan was first opened to the occident by Commodore Perry.'
White ribbon. In center in black is a profile of James A. Garfield on left and a front facial image of Chester A. Arthur. Above these images is "Garfield/ and/ Arthur." Below is: "Veterans,/ -of-/ Columbia, PA." and in smaller print: "With malice toward none, with/ charity for all, with firmness in the/ right, let us finish the work we are in./ Abraham Lincoln."
