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As a rising young corporation lawyer, Louis Dembitz Brandeis helped in 1903 to put together Boston’s United Shoe Machinery Corp. A combine of the three biggest companies in the business, United held ...

A new exhibit on display at the Beverly Historical Society seeks to bring a different perspective to the history of the United Shoe Machinery Company. “The Shoe: Redefining Shoemaking and History in ...

Shoe manufacturing was revolutionized by the lasting machine, which was patented on March 20, 1883 by inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch ...

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