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Title
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American Sewing Machine
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Description
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Description of business at 1026 Main Street carrying sewing machines billed as the only machine of its kind. It had "a self-setting needle" and "self-threading shuttle."
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Date
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1879
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Bridal Trousseau
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Description
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Promotional postcard issued by the Free Sewing Machine Company of Rockford, Illinois, depicting the trousseau of a bride in the early 20th century.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 59 with Feathers, Flowers, and Women
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Flowers (two cards cut to shape).2. A large feather and flowers (two cards).3. Two women sewing. Card says: "Using Poor Spool Cotton."4. A woman standing at a piano. Card says: "Estey Piano Co. New York, Manufacturers...""5. Flowers and doves.6. A woman knitting with a girl hugging her from behind and a cat rubbing on her arm.7. Three tiny clowns struggling to lay a bottle on a table.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 73 with People Sewing
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Three are "Copyright 1894, by the Singer Manufacturing Co." printed by "J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y." They show the following:1. Three adults and a child in a room, one using a sewing machine. Card says: "Lerwick."2. Four black men in grass skirts kneeling around a sewing machine outside. Card says: "Caroline Islands."3. A woman in traditional dress using a sewing machine. Card says: "Wurtemburg." The other cards show:1. A woman in ancient dress leaning on a wall. Lower left corner of card says: "MKCo."2. A couple with a wall of posters behind them. 3. A battle scene identified as "Arizona."4. A donkey and geese outside looking at an empty puppet theater.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card