Wedding Shoes

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center

Name/Title

Wedding Shoes

Entry/Object ID

0009.045

Description

handmade leather shoes

Use

wedding shoes Bessie (Heatwole) Wenger

Context

worn by Bessie (Heatwole) Wenger at her wedding Nov. 9, 1905

Collection

Wenger Family Collection

Cataloged By

Esther Landis Bittinger

Category

Clothing

Acquisition

Accession

0009

Source or Donor

Oscar & Bessie Heatwole Wenger family, Mildred Wenger Plank, Edith Virginia Wenger

Acquisition Method

Gift

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Shoes, Boots

Clothing Sex

Female

Size

adult

Textile Details

Material

Leather

Color

Black

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1905

Time Period

20th Century, Early 20th Century

Notes

Homemade

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

CLOTHING--FOOTWEAR

Category

03--PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

Location

Location

Box 7

Room

Storage

Building

Welcome Center

Inventory

Inventory Project

INV2026.1

Inventoried By

Hannah Hendricks

Inventoried Date

Feb 28, 2026

General Notes

Note Type

Date Cataloged

Note

03/19/2007

Created By

Sherrie R. Johndrow

Create Date

June 20, 2007

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

July 16, 2026