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Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a child seated at a St. John sewing machine]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
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Format: Trade cards
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Trade card featuring a child seated at a St. John sewing machine; text describing the desirable features of the machine. |
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| Record Number: |
1253 |
| Standard
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St. John Sewing Machine Company |
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Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring rose buds and text about the value of the Royal St. John Sewing Machine]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Trade card featuring rose buds and text about the value of the Royal St. John Sewing Machine "only machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction - weather run forward or backward - adapted for heavy or light work". |
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| Record Number: |
1250 |
| Standard
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St. John Sewing Machine Company |
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Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a picture of a sewing machine surrounded by roses]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Notes: |
Trade card featuring a picture of the sewing machine surrounded by roses
"The only machine in the world that continues to run in the same direction whether run forward or backward. Warranted for five years". |
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| Record Number: |
1251 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a basket of flowers]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Notes: |
Trade card featuring a basket of flowers. Text explaining the machine is recommended by mechanics as the best in the market, adapted for heavy use, and can sew in the same direction, forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1252 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a child seated at a St. John sewing machine and two children at the seaside saying "What are the world waves saying, sister?"]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Trade card featuring a child seated at a St. John sewing machine and two children a the seaside saying "what are the world waves saying, sister?". |
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| Record Number: |
1254 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a woman walking down a path holding a basket and an umbrella under her arm; in the distance is a house and mountains] / The only sewing machine in the worlds that sews continually in one direction whether forward or backward.
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Notes: |
Trade card featuring a woman walking down a path holding a basket and an umbrella under her arm. In the distance is a house and mountains; text: "The only sewing machine in the world that sews continually in one direction whether forward or backward". |
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| Record Number: |
1255 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a woman in a rose colored dress reading a book and sitting outside, with a house in the distance] / 'The only sewing machine in the world that sews continually in the same direction"
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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Notes: |
Trade card showing woman in rose colored dress reading a book and sitting outside. A house is in the distance. |
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| Record Number: |
1256 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring two parrots on a branch of a tree]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring two parrots on a branch of a tree with text "Perfect, simple, durable, warranted for 5 years. The only sewing machine in the worlds that sews continually in one direction whether forward or backward". |
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| Record Number: |
1257 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a river scene of the Mississippi River at Burlington] / "Only machine in the world that sews continuously in one direction, forward or backward."
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card showing a river scene of the Mississippi River at Burlington
"Only machine in the world that sews continuously in one direction, forward or backward"; back of card features a piece of music extolling the virtues of the St. John Machine. |
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| Record Number: |
1258 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a young girl holding a dog and looking affectionately at him] / "Only machine in the world that sews continuously in one direction, forward or backward."
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring a young girl holding a dog and looking affectionately at him. Poem on the reverse side is in tribute to the Royal St. John Sewing Machine; "Only machine in the world that sews continuously in one direction, forward or backward". |
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| Record Number: |
1259 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a young girl, wearing a rose-colored dress with a blue sash, and with brown hair parted in the middle, hugging a sad-eyed dog]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring a young girl, wearing a rose-colored dress with a blue sash, and brown hair parted in the middle, hugging a sad-eyed dog. |
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| Record Number: |
1261 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a group of adults and children watching a demonstration on a sewing machine with a cat on the floor] / High arm self setting needle.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
1 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card showing group of adults and children watching a demonstration on a sewing machine with a cat on the floor. |
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| Record Number: |
1262 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, out for a walk holding hands and carrying baskets] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, out for a walk holding hands and carrying baskets. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1263 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, out for a walk holding hands and carrying baskets] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, out for a walk holding hands and carrying baskets. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1264 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a woman and a child looking out at something; the woman wears a brown dress with a yellow collar and the child wears a blue dress] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring a woman and a child looking out at something; only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1265 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, running away; scarecrow visible in nearby tree] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, running away; scarecrow visible in nearby tree. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1267 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, running away; scarecrow visible in nearby tree] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring three children, two girls and one boy, running away; scarecrow visible in nearby tree. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1268 |
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Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring two children listening to a third child who is speaking and pointing to the St. John Sewing Machine] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether forward or backward.
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring two children listening to a third child who is speaking and pointing to the St. John Sewing Machine. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1269 |
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Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card resembling a ticket to a sewing machine exhibition] / New route to happiness, direct air line; avoid the stations of noise, fatigue, and vexation.
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| Imprint: |
[187-] |
| Pages: |
1 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card resembling a ticket to a sewing machine exhibition. "New route to happiness. Direct air line. Avoid the stations of nosiness, fatigue, and vexation". |
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| Record Number: |
1270 |
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Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring three children out for a walk, looking at a faceless scarecrow] / Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward.
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| Imprint: |
[between 1883 and 1894] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring three children out for a walk looking at a faceless scarecrow. Only sewing machine in the world that continues to sew in the same direction whether run forward or backward. |
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| Record Number: |
1271 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine |
| Title: |
[Trade card advertising the Improved New Royal Sewing Machine, Number 956]
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
Model represented: 956.
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card advertising the Improved New Royal Sewing Machine, Number 956. |
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| Record Number: |
1326 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Co. |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring St. John sewing machine models, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 plus cabinet case]
|
| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1883] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Illustrations of 4 sewing machines and their prices and their outstanding qualities; all illustrations fold into handy small booklet of 4 sections. |
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| Record Number: |
4875 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Co. |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring the Royal sewing machine mode by the St. John Company]
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| Imprint: |
[between 1870 and 1883] |
| Pages: |
2 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
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| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade flier expounding the attributes of this sewing machine; runs backward and forward; high arm, self setting needle, no holes to thread in machine or shuttle. |
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| Record Number: |
4878 |
| Standard
Company Name: |
St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Company
Name: |
Royal St. John Sewing Machine Company |
| Title: |
[Trade card featuring a young girl sewing] / Royal St. John Sewing Machine.
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| Imprint: |
[Between 1870 and 1899] |
| Pages: |
1 |
| Notes: |
Format: Trade cards
|
| Descriptive
Notes: |
Trade card featuring a "Community" gathering around a machine with young girl sewing. |
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| Record Number: |
268 |
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