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1800WRCLIT82908Norwich CT: George W. Kies Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes and Rubbers 1800. Printed illustrated handbill 142 x 217 mm printed recto and verso on thin paper stock resulting in ghosting from recto to verso and reverse. Fine. An advertising handbill for the Kies shoe shop highlighting their Cable Screw Wire Shoes. One side of the handbill includes an 11 x 6 cm. pictorial inset of a brutally caricatured African American field worker and an emaciated mule rigged to a setup that attempts to pull apart a shoe about the size of the mule captioned "I'se bound to rip dat Cable Screw Wire or bust a flue un dat thousand dollar muel." The verso is taken up with an image of a cart and driver drawn by two horses hauling a vastly oversize boot. George W. Kies, Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and Rubbers unknown books