Type of footwear extending above the ankle joint

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A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A maker of shoes and boots is selling shoes to a woman at the window of his workshop, as his assistants sew and hammer footwear. Woodcut by J. Amman.

An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.

Schritt für Schritt : die Geburt des modernen Schuhs : 26. Juli bis 14. Oktober 2012, Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt / Nike U. Breyer.

Occupational health ephemera. Box 1.

Why the shoe pinches : a contribution to applied anatomy / by Hermann Meyer ; translated from the German by John Stirling Craig.

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Boots

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Images referencing Boots

Works from the collections

Schritt für Schritt : die Geburt des modernen Schuhs : 26. Juli bis 14. Oktober 2012, Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt / Nike U. Breyer.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Occupational health ephemera. Box 1.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Why the shoe pinches : a contribution to applied anatomy / by Hermann Meyer ; translated from the German by John Stirling Craig.

Boots

Images from the collections

Images referencing Boots

Works from the collections

Schritt für Schritt : die Geburt des modernen Schuhs : 26. Juli bis 14. Oktober 2012, Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt / Nike U. Breyer.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Occupational health ephemera. Box 1.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Why the shoe pinches : a contribution to applied anatomy / by Hermann Meyer ; translated from the German by John Stirling Craig.

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