Word: shoeshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albany, Ga. shoeshop reported an alltime high in low-heeled shoe sales...
Harry Leibovitz went to Philadelphia from Russia in 1904, studied sculpture while working for Baldwin Locomotive Works. But when he married "Mama" Leibovitz, he gave up art, started a shoeshop in a residential section which gradually became a crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins...
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