Introductions

• Foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn
• "To the Trade . . ." The Trade Catalog Collection in the Smithsonian Libraries by Rhoda S. Ratner
• The Textile Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History by Barbara Suit Janssen
• The Archives Center Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History by John Fleckner
• Bibliography by Barbara Suit Janssen
• Download Sewing Machines: Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections (Washington, DC, 2001) in PDF Format (large file: 808 kb)

Additional Resources

• Grace Rogers Cooper. The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Development. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. 2d ed., rev. and expanded.
  ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes: First published in 1968 under title: The Invention of the Sewing Machine.

• Frederick Lewis Lewton. The Servant in the House: A Brief History of the Sewing Machine. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1930. Originally published in The Smithsonian Report for 1929: Publication 3056. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1930. pp. 559-583.