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Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a small girl in a village street]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a small girl in a village street.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 26 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3257

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring five swallows on telegraph lines]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring five swallows on telegraph lines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 26 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3258

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl with a hat]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl with hat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3433

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl with a hat]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl with hat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3434

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a beggar at a barbers' marveling at a well-tailored coat]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a beggar at a barber's marveling at a well-tailored coat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3436

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a seashore with cliffs and a sailing boat]
Imprint: [ca. 1886]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a seashore with cliffs and a sailing boat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3437

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a seashore with cliffs and rowing boats]
Imprint: [ca. 1886]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a seashore with cliffs and a sailing boat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3438

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card in the shape of an envelope featuring breeding birds]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card in the shape of an envelope featuring a breeding bird. List of advantages of the Helpmate sewing machine on back.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3435

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring flowers]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring flowers.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3439

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring two birds under an umbrella while snow is falling]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two birds under an umbrella while snowing.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3441

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl pulling two smaller children in a cart]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl pulling two smaller children in a cart.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3442

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring roses]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring roses.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3443

Standard Company Name: Williams Manufacturing Company
Company Name: Helpmate
Title: [Trade card featuring two girls making a wreath of flowers]
Imprint: [Between 1865 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two girls making a wreath of flowers.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 28 (about locations)
Display Scanned Item: No images available (about image availability)
Record Number: 3444

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