Cobblers Enemy | Busy Beaver Button Museum

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Illustration

Text on Button:

COBBLERS ENEMY, Brockton Fair Oct 1 to 4 1907

Image Description:

While background with black and yellow printing. Clean and detailed drawing of a sad cobbler sitting on a bench hammering a shoe. With purple ribbon and a pair of cast metal shoe hanging from the bottom of the ribbon.

Back Paper / Back Info:

Whitehead and Hoag

Curl Text:

The Whitehead and Hoag Co. Newark, N.J.

Back Style:

Unlocking pin

The Shape:

Circle

The Size:

1 1/4 inch

Year / Decade Made:

1907

1900s

The Manufacturer:

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

Additional Information:

Brockton, Mass. was the largest shoe manufacturer in the United States from the Civil War until the late 20th century. Powered by the Salisbury Plain River. "Shoe City" housed dozens of shoe factories, including Grover Shoe Factory, M.A. Packard Co., the E.E. Taylor Co., Stacy-Adams and Co. and the Charles A. Eaton Co.

Here is a great article from the local Brockton paper about the history of the shoe industry there.