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  • Your child's first shoes : no hard seams, support and protection, real leather uppers, fully adjustable, light and flexible anti-slip soles, room for chubby feet / Clarks Ltd.
  • A blacksmith working in his forge, and discussing money with two customers, while a boy shoes a horse. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.
  • Two men in elaborate costume, one representing 1549 with a sword and chains on his shoes and the other of 1819 with a cane and spurs on his boots. Coloured etching.
  • The feet of a man with worn shoes stick out of a barrel full of chang'aa alcohol: preventing alcoholism among the poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 1997.
  • The feet of a man with worn shoes stick out of a barrel full of chang'aa alcohol: preventing alcoholism among the poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 1997.
  • Farriery: seventeen figures including the anatomy of horses' hooves, a selection of horse-shoes, a horse suspended on a winching device, and apparatus for use in the tail 'nicking' procedure. Etching by J. Barlow, 1802.
  • A shoemaker sits on a bench with a tankard of ale in his hands, his tools are lying around him and a pair of shoes are on the window sill. Mezzotint by J. Dean, 1786.
  • A boy is cleaning the shoes of a man dressed in fine clothes, a woman seated on a chair is watching him, and another man is also cleaning boots. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Chalon after himself.
  • A boy is cleaning the shoes of a man dressed in fine clothes, a woman seated on a chair is watching him, and another man is also cleaning boots. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Chalon after himself.
  • Two men on a journey with three donkeys along a path through rocky terrain: one of the men is tending to the shoes of a donkey as the other man looks on. Etching by J. Visscher after N. Berchem.
  • A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • A silk night dress, boxer shorts, a pair of men's shoes, a man's watch, a rose, candles, a plate of strawberries, a condom and a tube of lubricant; advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS Project Los Angeles. Colour lithograph by Pete McArthur, 1993.
  • A dog with a syringe, a cat bearing two joined female symbols and a cockerel with a horse whip all piled up on top of a horse wearing high-heeled shoes; advertising an AIDS congress in Bremen, 1997. Colour lithograph by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe.
  • Dry feet and easy shoes... : Jones's celebrated waterproof composition... : Jones's Gloucestershire Specific for foot-rot in sheep : a disinfectant : the most speedy and certain cure, without injury to the foot / manufactured and sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by John Milton Jones, Gloucester.
  • Dry feet and easy shoes... : Jones's celebrated waterproof composition... : Jones's Gloucestershire Specific for foot-rot in sheep : a disinfectant : the most speedy and certain cure, without injury to the foot / manufactured and sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by John Milton Jones, Gloucester.
  • A woman sitting on her bed while dressing herself; a dog sleeps next to her, a pair of shoes are strewn across the floor in front of her, and a musical instrument, skull, book and a flower lay in the doorway to the room. Photogravure after J. Steen, 1663.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • A pair of men's boots and a pair of shoes on floor boards with a message addressed to Jérôme: "When you make love with Gilles, think about protection" with a warning to homosexuals that condoms are the best protection against HIV and STD's when practising anal penetration; advertisement for the Ecoute Gaie and SIDA Info Service by the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Assurance Maladie. Colour lithograph.
  • Foot binding: women's shoe, China
  • Uneven shoe wear on a horse
  • Sudanese Nuba shoe pattens. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Old Boots, an eccentric shoe shiner. Engraving after T. Grin.
  • Old Boots, an eccentric shoe shiner. Engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel