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Description
Cummings shoe factory employees sat at their workbenches in this unpainted room of the Cummings shoe factory. The women occupied the front half of the room, the men, sitting at high benches, occupied the back.
The Cummings factory building--which, as of 2016, still stands on Norton Street--was constructed about 1872. By the late 1800s, the mill employed 350 men and women to manufacture nearly 5000 pairs of shoes per day.
The factory continued to operate as the South Berwick Shoe, Inc., and later as the Duchess Shoe Company. It closed in the early 1990s.
About This Item
- Title: Workers seated in the David Cummings & Co. shoe factory, South Berwick, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: South Berwick , York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18 cm
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Factories--Maine--South Berwick
- Footwear
- Men--Maine--South Berwick
- Mills--Maine--South Berwick
- People associated with manual labor
- Shoe industry--Maine--South Berwick
- Shoemaking--Maine--South Berwick
- South Berwick (Me.)
- Women--Maine--South Berwick
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- Cummings
- Cummings Factory
- Cummingsville
- Factory
- Factory workers
- Leather
- Leatherwork
- Mill
- Mill workers
- Norton Street
- Shoe industry
- Shoemakers
- Shoetown
- South Berwick
- The Plains
For more information about this item, contact:
Old Berwick Historical SocietyP.O. Box 296; Corner of Main and Liberty Streets, South Berwick, ME 03908
(207) 384-0000
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