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Shoemaker's Shop

Images of Shoemaker's Shop

This image of the Shoemaker's Shop was drawn by John Woolf Jordan in 1873. Of interest is that Jordan identified this building as both the Shoemaker's Shop and the "Dead House," the building in which bodies would be stored before burial. (Image used courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.)

The Christiansbrunn diary indicates that the shoemaker's shop, still incomplete in late 1769, was completed in early 1770. The shop was built just north of the main quadrangle that had formed the footprint of Christiansbrunn.

These photographs of the shoemaker's shop were taken, as far as can be determined, in the 1860s, the 1870s, or the 1890s.

Shoemakers worked in Christiansbrunn before the Shoemaker's Shop was constructed. Here is the 1762 inventory of the trade:

3 Werckstellen - 3 work stations
5 Schuster Stuhle - 5 shoemaker chairs
2 Faessel 26 Gute Leisten - 26 good trims/lath
30 Schlechte Do. - 30 bad trims/lath
19 kleine Do. - 19 small trims/lath
1Leder Zange - 1 leather tong
1 D. Schlecht - 1 bad tong
2 Kneif Zangen - 2 pinching tong
3 Schuster hammer -
3 cobbler hammers
5 Wasgeln 2 feilen - 2 files
16 Schuh Oerter mit hefter
42 Do. one.
Do. 3
Stuck 2

 

The image below is our best attempt to locate the Shoemaker's Shop on a 1795 map of the Christiansbrunn community.

 

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