Historian Kimberly S. Alexander, a former curator at the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Strawbery Banke, teaches material culture and museum studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Alexander spent eight years researching [Treasures Afoot], which examines eighteenth-century shoes from thirty different collections, plus thousands of original letters, inventories and other manuscripts. Each shoe or pair of shoes is the catalyst for a story of how it was made, sold and worn, told in astonishing depth and detail.—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Ornament Magazine

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Cordwainers Chapter 2. Wedding Shoes Chapter 3. The Value of a London Label Chapter 4. Coveting Calamancos: From London to Lynn Chapter 5. The Cordwainer's Lament: Benjamin Franklin and John Hose Testify on the Effects of the Stamp Act Chapter 6. "For My Use, Four Pair of Neat Shoes": George Washington, Virginia Planter, and Mr. Didsbury, Boot- and Shoemaker of London Chapter 7. Boston's Cordwainers Greet President Washington, 1789 Conclusion Epilogue Appendixes Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Historian Kimberly S. Alexander, a former curator at the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Strawbery Banke, teaches material culture and museum studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Alexander spent eight years researching [Treasures Afoot], which examines eighteenth-century shoes from thirty different collections, plus thousands of original letters, inventories and other manuscripts. Each shoe or pair of shoes is the catalyst for a story of how it was made, sold and worn, told in astonishing depth and detail.—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Ornament Magazine

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Cordwainers Chapter 2. Wedding Shoes Chapter 3. The Value of a London Label Chapter 4. Coveting Calamancos: From London to Lynn Chapter 5. The Cordwainer's Lament: Benjamin Franklin and John Hose Testify on the Effects of the Stamp Act Chapter 6. "For My Use, Four Pair of Neat Shoes": George Washington, Virginia Planter, and Mr. Didsbury, Boot- and Shoemaker of London Chapter 7. Boston's Cordwainers Greet President Washington, 1789 Conclusion Epilogue Appendixes Glossary Notes Bibliography Index