Interior View of the Old Virginia Shoe Shop

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Stock #: 533697
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Roanoke
State: Virginia (VA)
County: Roanoke (city)
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Craddock-Terry Co.'s exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. The old colored man, Alfred Leight, was a slave belonging to Judge Thomas Leigh, of Halifax Co., Va. His wife belonged to Dr. Charles Craddock, the father of the Craddocks of Craddock-Terry Co. who are the largest shoe manufacturers int he South, with three large factories in which they manufacture the celebrated Longwear Shoes.

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