Fall catalogue.
A 1906 trade catalogue from Parker, Holmes & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, issued by the company to show its footwear lines for the fall season, most likely to retailers and buyers. The pictures are small, flat black-and-white product engravings of boots and shoes, with a buckled high boot, a laced ankle boot with a Barton Shoe Co. label, and a pair of soles with a rubber tread stamped Boston. A designer could take from them the plain, practical silhouettes and buckle and strap hardware of early twentieth-century footwear.
