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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Labels]
Imprint: 1885
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Davis company logo; picture of Davis Company offices.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 877

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Labels]
Imprint: 1885
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Davis company logo; picture of Davis Company offices.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 878

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Kamf, Silver Creek, Illinois, for two machines]
Imprint: 1883
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for two sewing machines, $21.50 and $22.50 marked paid in full date: April 23, 1883.
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Record Number: 875

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Kamf, Silver Creek, Illinois, for two sewing machines]
Imprint: 1883
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for two sewing machines, $21.50 and $22.50 marked paid in full date: May 5, 1883.
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Record Number: 876

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Two checks to Mr. Kamf for $44.00]
Imprint: 1883
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Two checks from Davis Sewing Machine Company to Mr. Kamf.
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Record Number: 879

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1876]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
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Record Number: 881

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1876]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 1 (about locations)
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Record Number: 882

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Directions for operating the new Davis sewing machine. / Gold medal of honor and diploma of merit: awarded to the Davis vertical feed serving machine, centennial exhibition
Imprint: 1876
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Features a picture of a seal, for the Medal of Honor, 1876 Centennial Exhibition.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 8 (about locations)
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Record Number: 898

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis improved vertical feed shuttle sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1870]
Pages: 3
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Model represented: Vertical feed sewing machine with vertical feed bar (eliminating the need for basting).
Descriptive Notes: Testimonials; instructions and explanations for using the vertical feed bar.
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Record Number: 880

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [1874-1876]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
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Record Number: 883

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 8
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Price list of machines; "see what the vertical feed sewing machine will do without basting".
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Record Number: 884

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 8
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Price list of machines; "See what the vertical feed sewing machine will do with out basting".
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Record Number: 885

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Certificate of warranty. / Davis sewing machine no. 265578.
Imprint: 1883
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Warranty and certificate of authenticity; includes note that user must keep machine properly oiled.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 886

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis sewing machines. / The best on earth.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch-work made using a Davis Sewing machine. instructions for machine and attachments; drawings of binding scallops; making pleated trimmings; edge stitching a band; gathering and sewing on a band.
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Record Number: 887

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch work done on a Davis Sewing Machine of a bald eagle.
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Record Number: 890

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch work done on a Davis Sewing Machine of a bald eagle.
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Record Number: 891

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis sewing machines. / The best on earth.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch-work made using a Davis Sewing machine. instructions for machine and attachments; drawings of binding scallops; making pleated trimmings; edge stitching a band; gathering and sewing on a band.
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Record Number: 889

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: 1776-1876, Centennial handbook. / Presented by Davis Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint: 1876
Pages: 32
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Information about Philadelphia, Great Exhibition, Centennial Buildings, Machinery Hall; pictures of many Exhibition buildings; map of Exhibition.
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Record Number: 894

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine. / Best on earth.
Imprint: 1892
Pages: 24
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Cover features Native Americans in traditional dress in the courtyard of a city of Roman architecture; distributed at the Davis Sewing Machine exhibition at the Worlds Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
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Record Number: 892

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl holding three snow balls] / Davis sewing machine best on earth.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl holding three snow balls.
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Record Number: 902

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: 1776-1876, Centennial handbook. / Presented by Davis Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint: 1876
Pages: 32
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Information about Philadelphia, Great Exhibition, Centennial Buildings, Machinery Hall; pictures of many Exhibition buildings; map of Exhibition.
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Record Number: 893

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: 1876
Pages: 32
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.
Descriptive Notes: Great Exhibition 1876.
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Record Number: 895

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: 1880
Pages: 16
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9.
Descriptive Notes: Lists of salesrooms.
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Record Number: 896

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 8
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10.
Descriptive Notes:
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Record Number: 897

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a little boy at a riverside] / Davis has no equal; no cogs; no feed teeth; no annoyances.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a little boy at a riverside.
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Record Number: 901

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman shooting another woman with one gun and pointing a second gun to her head] / Davis has no equal; no cogs, no feed teeth, no annoyances.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman shooting another woman with one gun and pointing a second gun to her head.
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Record Number: 899

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two women and a clown-like character, with directional sign to Utah] / Davis has no equal; no cogs; no feed teeth; no annoyances.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two women and a clown-like character, with directional sign to Utah.
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Record Number: 900

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry.
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Record Number: 903

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine: a household treasure the world over.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench.
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Record Number: 904

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers.
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Record Number: 905

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers.
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Record Number: 907

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine: a household treasure the world over.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench.
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Record Number: 908

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring young woman with ornate jewelry.
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Record Number: 910

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card in the shape of a butterfly] / Buy the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes:
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Record Number: 911

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table.
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Record Number: 912

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
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Record Number: 913

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground] / Vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground.
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Record Number: 914

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground] / Vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground.
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Record Number: 915

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
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Record Number: 917

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table.
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Record Number: 918

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Vertical feed sewing machine. / No cogs, no feed teeth, no annoyances.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Picture of floral bouquet on cover.
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Record Number: 920

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a dog on a chain being taunted by two mice] / The Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a dog on a chain being taunted by two mice.
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Record Number: 921

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a frog, wearing clothes, lounging in the sun] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a frog, wearing clothes, lounging in the sun.
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Record Number: 922

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl with a fan] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl with a fan.
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Record Number: 923

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two images of a woman; one of a the woman sitting and sewing by candlelight and appearing to fall asleep and a second one of the same woman sitting at a sewing machine] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two images of a woman; one of a woman sitting and sewing by candlelight, appearing to fall asleep and a second of the same woman sitting at a sewing machine.
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Record Number: 919

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat, with a bird in its mouth, being approached by a cat] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a cat, with a bird in its mouth, being approached by a cat.
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Record Number: 924

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy carrying an umbrella] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young boy carrying an umbrella.
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Record Number: 925

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a frog 'waving' to two ducks] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a frog 'waving' to two ducks.
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Record Number: 926

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl dressed in a flowing dress] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring young girl dressed in a flowing dress.
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Record Number: 927

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Decal shaped like a sewing machine on a sewing machine stand] / Davis vertical feed has one equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Decals
Descriptive Notes: Decal shaped like a sewing machine on a sewing machine stand.
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Record Number: 928

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman at a sewing machine with a young girl watching] / Mother, you have tried all kinds, now buy the new Davis, they say it never gets out of order and runs so easy.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman at a sewing machine with a young girl watching.
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Record Number: 929

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of the Davis Sewing Machine factory] / Return in five days to the Davis Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of the Davis Sewing Machine factory.
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Record Number: 932

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring boats at sail and a lighthouse] / Davis sewing machine is the best.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring picture of boats at sail and a lighthouse.
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Record Number: 933

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl at a sewing machine with a woman overseeing her work] / Mother, no trouble to run the Davis; no basting, it runs alone.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl at a sewing machine with a woman overseeing her work.
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Record Number: 930

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a bouquet of flowers in an extended hand]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a bouquet of flowers in an extended hand back lists address for obtaining a descriptive circular.
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Record Number: 931

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl in a flower garden] / Davis sewing machine is the best.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl in a flower garden.
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Record Number: 935

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Decal shaped like a leaf] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine: no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Decals
Descriptive Notes: Decal shaped like a leaf.
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Record Number: 936

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a red shoe with a dance program and flowers inside]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring red shoe with a dance program and flowers inside.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 940

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two children jumping over a fence] / Be sure to buy the Davis.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two children jumping over a fence; offers a $1,000 reward to anyone who can perform work on another manufacturer's sewing machine and have it look as good as work done on a Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 8 (about locations)
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Record Number: 934

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three baby pictures, each depicting a different emotion] / The light running high arm new Davis sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three baby pictures, each with a different emotion.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 937

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman sitting on a bench with a flower in her hand] / Davis sewing machines bring contentment, happiness, beauty, and health.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman sitting on a bench with a flower in her hand.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 938

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman in a bonnet with a parasol] / Davis sewing machine is the best.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman in a bonnet with a parasol.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 939

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two children sitting on a log] / High arm, light running, vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two children sitting on a log.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 941

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral arrangement] / Fac-simile of embroidery done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral arrangement.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 942

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral arrangement and a bird's nest containing three eggs] / Fac-simile of embroidery done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral arrangement and a bird's nest containing three eggs.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 943

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral bouquet] / Vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral bouquet.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 944

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade catalog featuring a flag with a emblem of a sea-side cottage] / Davis sewing machine is the best.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade catalog featuring a flag with a emblem of a sea-side cottage.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 945

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of two boys: one playing the flute and one dancing with a cat, and a duck watching] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of two boys: one playing the flute and one dancing with a cat and duck watching; contains a notice offering a $1000 reward for work done on another company's sewing machine that is superior to work done on a Davis machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 946

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two boys, one on crutches and one holding a musical instrument, and a dog with a sign around its neck] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two boys. Also in the scene is a dog with a sign around its neck. Notice offering a $1,000 reward for work done on another company's sewing machine that is superior to work done on a Davis machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 947

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, with a muff, on roller skates] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, with a muff, on roller skates; back includes a description of Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880 where the Davis Sewing Machine Company won first prize.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 948

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man and a woman playing in a meadow] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man and a woman playing in a meadow; notice offering a $1,000 reward for work done on another company's sewing machine that is superior to Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 949

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a green dress] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a green dress; back of card contains a description of Davis's receipt of 1st prize for sewing machines at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 950

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man whispering into a woman's ear] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man whispering into a woman's ear; back of card contains a description of Davis's receipt of 1st prize for sewing machines at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 951

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman on a swing] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman on a swing; back of card contains a description of Davis's receipt of 1st prize for sewing machines at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 952

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man and a woman dancing] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man and a woman dancing; back of card contains a description of Davis's receipt of 1st prize for sewing machines at the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879-1880.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 953

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral image with a bird's nest with eggs]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral image with a bird's nest with eggs; sample embroidery included.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 954

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a child at a pond with a dog] / First order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a child at a pond with a dog; first order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 956

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a child on a crate in a pond holding a big fish] / First order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a child on a crate in a pond holding a big fish; first order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 957

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a child on a crate at a pond holding a big fish] / First order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a child on a crate at a pond holding a big fish; first order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 958

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three children in a meadow] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three children in a meadow. At Sydney International Exhibition (1878-1880), Davis vertical feed machine received the only first prize for sewing machines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 962

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy, wearing a hat, with two dogs on leashes] / First order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young boy, wearing a hat, with two dogs on leashes. First order of merit was awarded only to Davis vertical feed sewing machine at the international exhibition, 1880-1881, at Melbourne, Australia.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 959

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a child, with a dog, standing in a open door with sunlight visible outside the door] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: trade card featuring a child, with a dog, standing in a open door with sunlight visible outside the door. At Sydney International Exhibition (1878-1880) Davis vertical feed machine received the only first prize for sewing machines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 960

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring five children forming a pyramid to climb up to the top of a set of shelves] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring five children forming a pyramid to climb up to the top of a set of shelves. At Sydney International Exhibition (1878-1880) Davis vertical feed machine received the only first prize for sewing machines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 961

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl with a small dog] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl with a small dog; at Sydney International Exhibition (1878-1880) Davis vertical feed machine received the only first prize for sewing machines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 963

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting; offer of $1,000 for anyone getting same quality of work from a non-Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 964

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two children, in colonial dress, marching and carrying musical instruments]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two children, in colonial dress, marching and carrying musical instruments. Offer of $1,000 for anyone getting same quality of work from a non-Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 965

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card in the form of a jig-saw puzzle, featuring a picture of Davis Sewing Machine manufacturing company plant]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card, in the form of a jig-saw puzzle, featuring a picture of the Davis sewing machine manufacturing company plant. Picture is a street scene including horse-drawn carriage, and railroad tracks and trains.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 966

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Envelope addressed to M.A. Kamp, Esquire]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Envelope addressed to M.A. Kamp, Esquire.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 967

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman in a hat] / Buy the new high arm Davis sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman in a hat. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 968

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby picture]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a baby picture. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 969

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby picture] / Momma's got a Davis Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a baby picture. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 970

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook] / Lightest running shuttle machine in the world.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
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Record Number: 973

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 974

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with lace anklets, black shoes, and a short skirt] / Buy the new high arm Davis sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with lace anklets, black shoes, and a short skirt; on the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 971

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook] / Lightest running shuttle machine in the world.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 972

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 975

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of Davis sewing machine No. 2 and a list of the benefits of owning a Davis sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of Davis sewing machine No. 2 and a list of the benefits of owning a Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 976

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting; offer of $1,000 for anyone getting same quality of work from a non-Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 981

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a bird on a limb, overlooking a river. A snow covered house is in the background]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a bird on a limb, overlooking a river. A snow covered house is in the background.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 978

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a snow covered bridge and trees with a river underneath]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a snow covered bridge and trees with a river underneath.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 979

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two girls under a cape; on the front an insert features a picture of a river with a bridge over it, and the back has a black and white picture of a sewing machine on a globe, with American flags surrounding the globe] / Mother makes our clothes on the 'Davis' sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two girls under a cape. An insert on the front features a picture of a river with a bridge over it. The back has a black and white picture of a sewing machine on a globe, with American flags surrounding the globe.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 977

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl, an insert of a lighthouse] / Advance sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl, an insert of a lighthouse; includes description of the advance machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 9 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 980

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Manufactory
Title: [Trade card featuring an angel and a sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring an angel and a sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3198

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the Davis Manufactory company building]
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring Davis Manufactory company building. Advertisement for Davis vertical feed sewing machine on back.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3199

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Manufacturing Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the advance sewing machine] / Most quiet, lightest running.
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: This trade card was apparently glued to some paper; any descriptive material on the verso is unreadable; picture of child with long curly hair in blue barrette, light blue dress with ruffle at neck, flowers and sailboat scene at top of card.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 ; Folder 11 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4210

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine
Title: [Barlow's insurance survey's fire insurance map of the Davis Sewing Machine Works, Watertown, N.Y.]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1890]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Scale map and description of the Davis Sewing Machine factory.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Barlow's Insurance Surveys. Box: 1 ; Folder 5 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4492

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: The last sheaf: thus beautiful picture represents a landscape in Normandy.
Imprint: 1889
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Fliers
Descriptive Notes: Advertisement for an oil painting - for $. 25 receive painting and 1890 calendar - young girl leaving a harvest with sheaf on her shoulder.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 487

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine. / Does all work without basting.
Imprint: [1869-]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Model represented: Vertical feed sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Pamphlet features two women sewing, using other machines, complaining about under feed technique and one man criticizing the fit of his suit.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 488

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for shuttle bobbin.]
Imprint: 1876
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for shuttle bobbin for $1.50.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 489

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Karuf, Silver Creek, IL for one shuttle, $.64]
Imprint: 1887
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for shuttle at $.60, and post at $.04.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 491

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis
Title: Office of the Daily Terror.
Imprint: 1882
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Humorous ad campaign; picture of a man (who works at the "Daily Terror" becoming "stuck" when he realizes the awkward underfeed machines make work more difficult.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 492

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Collection of children's poems - featuring line drawing]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899]
Pages: 14
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: $1,000.000 reward "for any machine that will do as great a range of work as Davis sewing machines." Back has an advertisement written in the first person from the Davis sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
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Record Number: 490

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Office of the Daily Terror.
Imprint: 1882
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Humorous ad campaign; picture of a man (who works at the "Daily Terror" becoming "stuck" when he realizes the awkward underfeed machines make work more difficult.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 ; Folder 7 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 493

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