Inventor Name
Brannock, Charles
Repository
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
Archives Center
P.O. Box 37012
MRC 601/Room 1100
Washington, DC 20013-7012
202-633-3270
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Physical Description
Approx. 12 cu. ft.: 4 boxes, 1 mapcase folder, and 1 filmstrip.
Summary
Charles F. Brannock invented the Brannock Foot-Measuring Device in 1925. It soon became the shoe industry standard. The Park-Brannock Shoe Store was established in 1906 by Otis C. Brannock and Ernest N. Park. Correspondence, design drawings, and U.S. and foreign patents and trademarks, advertisements, product information, sales records, photographs, and a film strip documenting the invention, promotion, and sale of the Brannock foot-measuring device, as well as the concurrent development of Park-Brannock as a leading shoe store in Syracuse, N.Y.
Finding Aid
http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0672.html
