Becky got back me to today, confirming that she has submitted an application for scanning with several of the titles we brought up! Tons of great stuff coming, though the application has yet to be approved.
Already Available
Becky was able to find The Manufacture of Shoe Uppers on Google Books already. This is a big one!
Not Included
The American Footwear Designer is not on the application, since a revised edition by much later-coming author is on Google Books, but without any full download. The original should be in the public domain, but isn’t available anywhere online that I have found.
The Footwear of Soldiers was also excluded. It’s on Google Books, but with only snippets made public. Betsy seems top think this means that the the copyright holder has set the level of access. I wonder about that, since it’s been in the public domain a good number of years and USMC was gone long before Google Books started scanning.
Goodyear Welt Shoes: How They Are Made has apparently been digitized by a group called Hagley Digital Archives, here. But their site is currently down with a notice that they were being thrashed by bot scraping for data to train “AI” on. I’ve set myself a reminder to check the link again in a month or so.
Crispin Anecdotes may or may not go on a future application. Gale apparently has a scan, but it’s only available with paid access.
Included in App, To Scan
- A Manual of Boot & Shoe Manufacture
- Technology of Boot & Shoe Manufacture, which Becky reports looks to be an updated edition of A Manual of boot & shoe manufacture
- The Manual for Upper Leather Cutters
- Upper Closing Illustrated
- Swaysland’s report on American manufacture
- Lynn Independent Industrial Shoemaking School
- United Shoe Machinery Corporation : The Story of its Service and Methods
- The Secret of the Shoe
- Modern Shoemaking