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Stepping out

by National Library of Australia Commons

Footwear images from the National Library’s photographic collections—putting our best foot forward from the 1870s to the 1950s.

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Rachel Cameron adjusting ballet shoes
Billboard advertising Parker shoes, Victoria, approximately 1925
Billboard advertising Clyde shoes, Victoria, approximately 1925
Joy Laurieton, cabin crew, tying her shoe lace, ca. 1952
Moya Beaver putting on her pointe shoe, in costume with choker worn in productions of the Lightfoot-Burlakov First Australian Ballet, ca. 1935
Street scenes in Jerusalem [cobblers and a shoe shop] [Frank Hurley]
Shoe black polishing man's shoes, Sydney, 1897
John Charles Thomas shows his American golf shoes to Mr George Sutherland of Melbourne, [1947?]
Man standing outside William Krone's Boot & Shoe Bazaar, Short Street, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
Four men outside Condell's Great Western Boot Mart, Clarke Street, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
Pearl diver's boots and helmet, Thursday Island, Queensland, ca. 1928 / Charles Maurice Yonge
[Man sitting on deck putting boots on] [Frank Hurley]
Man wearing a stetson style hat and high heeled boots standing on a street corner, Kansas, 1934 / Sarah Chinnery
Woman and child buying shoes in the shoe section of Bell and Macaulay's Store, Drouin, Victoria