Woman's ankle high black leather boot with elasticized fabric insets and low stacked heel. This is the right foot.
Maria Rosa Slanze married Abramo Ferdinando Menapace in Trinidad, Colorado in 1901. Both were emigrants from what is now Italy; then it was Tirol, Austria. Abramo was a coal miner--in 1903 at the Victor Fuel Company coal mine in Hastings (among other mines at different times). He also owned property in Ludlow assessed at $1025 about this time. Several of their children were born at Ludlow. Abramo died in Ludlow in 1923. Maria died there decades later in 1962. Both are buried in the Catholic cemetery in Trinidad. According to the catalog cards, the shoes were donated in 1963 almost a year after Maria's death. There is no paperwork on file to know who actually made the donation in her name, but lacking all other information, it has to be assumed that they were donated in her name because they belonged to her.
Stamped into the soles of both shoes 3 ½
Stamped in ink inside both shoes: 3 ½ / 69
Secondary inscription on the sole of each shoe handwritten in pencil: 1890 / 1895