Scrapbook, created by Henry G. Lumbard, Auburn, Maine, 1917. Maine State Museum. Gift of Caroline Lumbard, 87.62.
Scrapbook, created by Henry G. Lumbard, Auburn, Maine, 1917. Maine State Museum. Gift of Caroline Lumbard, 87.62.
Henry Lumbard followed his sister from Nebraska to Auburn, Maine, when she married a shoe manufacturer. Lumbard soon worked for his brother-in-law, Ralph Lunn.
Lumbard compiled this scrapbook while studying different aspects of the shoe business. Much of the material he collected was used in the Lunn & Sweet factory.
Ralph Lunn died in 1916, and Henry Lumbard later opened his own shoe factory, which was in operation during the strike of 1937.