Sewing Machines:  Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections
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Title: [Trade card featuring a facade]
Imprint: [18--], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
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Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facade.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 : Folder 16
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Title: [Trade card for an agent who sells a variety of sewing machines]
Imprint: [19--?], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Model represented: Household.
Agent information: Geo. T. Albro
Descriptive Notes: Very small trade card, distributed by an agent who sells a variety of sewing machines in Boston.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Title: [Postcard featuring the Singer Building, New York]
Imprint: [1906?], New York, NY, Allied Printing
Pages: 2
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Descriptive Notes: Postcard with a handwritten note on front regarding magazine editors who have locked out their printers for requesting the eight hour work day. Postally unused.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 3 : Folder 1
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Title: [Sheet music: Billy Morris' songs]
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1899], Boston, A.D. Russell and Company
Pages: 5
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Descriptive Notes: Sheet music for songs titled "Sewing Machine" and music that includes words about sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Trade card featuring pink flowers]
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1890], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Models represented: Family Singer No. 4; New York high arm, and Helpmate high arm.
Agent information: E.L. Parker; South Onondaga
Descriptive Notes: Front is stamped "the Singer only $20 cash; $30 time"; verso advertises Williams Family Singer No. 4, New York "High Arm", and Helpmate "High Arm".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 3 : Folder 15
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Title: [Business card for Wm. H. Buckley, sewing machine salesman]
Imprint: [n.d.], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: 151 Washington St. Boston [Mass.]
Model represented: Wheeler & Wilson.
Agent information: Wm. H. Buckley
Descriptive Notes: Business card for salesman for Wheeler & Wilson, Singer & Co., Florence, Willcox & Gibbs, Grover & Baker, Howe, Domestic, Davis, Weed, American buttonhole and over seaming machines (handwritten text on verso of card).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 3 : Folder 2
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Title: [Lithograph of woman hand sewing in front of a sewing machine]
Imprint: [n.d.], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
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Descriptive Notes: Round lithograph shows woman sewing by hand, while sewing machine sits idle behind her; appears to be hand-cut.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 3 : Folder 1
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Title: [Advertisement by Demorest's monthly for her subscribers to receive a premium of a free sewing machine]
Imprint: [n.d.], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
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Descriptive Notes: Ad for twenty subscribers at $3.00 each to receive a new Bartram & Fairton elastic stitch sewing machine, or twenty-five subscribers at $3.00 each to receive a Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine; verso advertises Mme. Demorest's fashions.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Pattern Industry. Box: 1 : Folder 35, Madame Demorest reliable patterns
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Title: Receipt for one month's rental for Grover & Baker's sewing machine.
Imprint: 1862, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 486 Broadway Cor. Broome St., New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: This is a receipt for monthly use of a rental sewing machine; $5.00 is for one month plus another 25 cents.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 8
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Title: International Exhibition 1862: official catalogue. / Official catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862.
Imprint: 1862, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
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Descriptive Notes: Section on sewing machines, p. 37-46 after text, American Sole sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. World Expositions. Box: 1 : Folder, London 1862
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Title: B.P. Johnson's report on the International Exhibition London, 1862. / Report on International Exhibition of Industry and Art.
Imprint: 1863, Albany, Steam Press of C. Van Benthuysen
Pages: 6
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Listing and description of sewing machines shown at the London Exposition. Manufacturers include Wheeler & Wilson, J.M. Singer (sic), Wilcox (sic) & Gibbs, Howe, Goodwin, Wright, Richards, Crosby & Smith.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. World Expositions. Box: 1 : Folder, London 1862
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Title: [Sheet music: Ballad of the needle] / A fairy dream.
Imprint: 1867, New York, NY, Brown & Hewitt
Pages: 16
Notes: Agent information: Grover & Baker Family Sewing Machines, 495 Broadway, NY
Descriptive Notes: This book is a saga of sewing from the joys of doing it by hand to the wonders of doing it by machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 6
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Title: [Sewing machine, 1872]
Imprint: 1872, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 9
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: This is a review of sewing machines from the earliest which received a patent in England on July 24, 1755 to Elias Howe who received a patent for the "first practical" machine for sewing; many of the patents for machines never were manufactured.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 6
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Title: [Sheet music: New Home]
Imprint: 1890, Boston, [s.n.]
Pages: 4
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Descriptive Notes: Sheet music with sewing machine related words.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Sheet music: I'll just send an angel down]
Imprint: 1897, N.Y., Howley, Hariland & Co.
Pages: 1
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Descriptive Notes: Sheet music. The front picture shows a woman praying with the New Family type sewing machine beside her. Text is unrelated to sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Sheet music: When mother plays a rag on the sewing machine]
Imprint: 1912, N.Y., Leo. Feist, Inc.
Pages: 6
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Sheet music with words related to sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Sheet music: the sewing machine]
Imprint: 1947, New York, Susan Publications, Inc.
Pages: 6
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Descriptive Notes: Sheet music from the movie "The Perils of Pauline". The words are related to sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Sheet music: Old sewing machine]
Imprint: 1952, N.Y., Music Co., Inc.
Pages: 4
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Descriptive Notes: Sheet music with words related to sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. DeVincent Sheet Music Collection. Box: 241 : Sewing Machines
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Title: [Trade card featuring the best sewing machines, best pianos, best organs lowest prices guaranteed]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Agent information: L.J. Wheelden; Bangor, ME
Descriptive Notes: This trade card shows a winter scene with snow covering trees and roof tops; bordering the front picture there is advertising regarding the products they are selling; on verso of card all the models of sewing machines, pianos and organs are named.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Title: History of the sewing machine / by James Parton.
Imprint: 19th cent., S.W. corner Eleventh and Chestnut Sts., Dunlap & Co.
Pages: 22
Notes: Models represented: Howe 1, 2, 3, 4, B & C.
Descriptive Notes: This is a history of the sewing machine though the final emphasis is on the invention of the first usable sewing machine; Elias Howe, Jr. inventor, sewing 300 stitches per minute.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 6
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Title: Sewing machines.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 18
Notes: Models represented: Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs.
Descriptive Notes: This is basically a study of the evolution of the sewing machine from Charles Weisenthal, England 1755 to patented 1849 Johnson and Morey and others followed.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 6
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Title: [Trade card advertising C.W. Cadby dealer in sewing machines] / Also sewing machine supplies, needles, oil, shuttle, bobbins, belts, etc.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: C.W. Cadby; Main St. Near Depot, Salem, Indiana
Descriptive Notes: This is a trade card for a dealer in sewing machines and sewing supplies; dealer also does repairing; no specific company name was mentioned.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Title: [Trade card featuring pianos, organs, and sewing machines] / Largest stock and best variety.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Agent information: A. Mahan; No. 11 Court St., Courtland, N.Y.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing two Scotsmen meeting each with a bottle held behind them; their dogs are meeting similarly under their owners legs; quotation from Macbeth "there is no art to find the mind's construction in the face"; picture is blue.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Title: [Trade card featuring a sewing machine broker] / Sewing machines of all king: machines, needles, oil, and findings.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: Hosea Ballou Carter, East Hampstead, N.H.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card announcing that Hosea Ballou Carter is a sewing machine broker selling sewing machines of all kinds also needles, oil and findings.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Acme Buttonhole Attachment Company, Ltd.
Company Name on Item: Acme Buttonhole Attachment Co., Ltd.
Title: [Trade card featuring the Acme buttonhole attachment for domestic use]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 2 West 14th Street, New York, NY
Model represented: Acme Button Hole Attachment.
Descriptive Notes: Sample of buttonhole made with attachment is attached to card; it seems to make a near complete buttonhole which speaks well for the product.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: American Bobbin Company
Company Name on Item: American Bobbin Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring American bobbins]
Imprint: 1902, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Agent information: Lorthiois Freres
Descriptive Notes: The American flag decorates what appears to be two bobbins side by side; superimposed on the flag is the company's trademark an American eagle with the word "trademark" above the bird and "e pluribus unum" under the bird.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: The American button-hole, over seaming and sewing machine combined.
Imprint: [Between 1867 and 1877], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: Combination machine $75, plan machine $60.
Descriptive Notes: Call for " active young men to act as agents in every town in New England.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for plain machine]
Imprint: 1875, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: Plain machine $70.00.
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Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming & Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Receipt for purchases]
Imprint: 1876, [S.l.], J.M. Millin
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 178 Liberty St. near Market, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Agent information: Jas. Espy
Descriptive Notes: Receipt for purchases made in 1873; items are not specifically mentioned.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice to Mr. Theo(dore) Foreman for $25.00]
Imprint: 1893, Philadelphia, PA, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Invoice to Mr. Theo(dore) Foreman for ($25.00).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: The best is the cheapest.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899], Philadelphia, PA, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Descriptive Notes: Floral design gives Philadelphia address of company offices.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl in ethnic dress]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring young girl in ethnic dress.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: The American Combination Sewing Machine : practically two machines in one.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: Combination sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Stamped with agents name and address - Newark advertising piece. "Why the best machine for family use."
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a U.S. patriotic motif]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring patriotic images (red white and blue design).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman being carried in hammock by two men]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman being carried in hammock by two men.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring clowns]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring clowns.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man and a woman in Asian ethnic dress]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man and woman in Asian ethnic dress. The man is helping the woman into a cart.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring children dressed for winter]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring children dressed for winter.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring children wearing winter clothing]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring children wearing winter clothing.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring children wearing winter clothing]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring children wearing winter clothing.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man in a boat, approaching a bridge in the distance]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man in a boat, approaching a bridge in the distance.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring clowns]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring clowns.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a drawing of Star Key Lake, California] / Will you please try the American sewing machine before you buy?
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring Star Key Lake, California.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman sewing at machine with three young girls around her. Message "ye olden time: women sewing by hand".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman sewing at machine with three young girls around her. Message "ye olden time: women sewing by hand".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman sewing at machine with three young girls around her. Message "ye olden time: women sewing by hand".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing] / The American family sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman sewing at machine with three young girls around her. Message "ye olden time: women sewing by hand".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring angels and flowers]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring angels.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: What the people say who have the American button-hole, over-seaming and sewing machine combined.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], American Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: American button-hole, over seaming, and sewing machine combined.
Descriptive Notes: List of testimonials from owners/users.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral pattern]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring floral pattern.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral pattern]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring floral pattern.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing] / The American family sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman sewing at machine with three young girls around her. Message "ye olden time: women sewing by hand".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: American button hole, overseaming and sewing machine combined. / The first and only button hole and sewing machine combined in the world.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: Button hole/Overseaming and Sewing Machine.
Descriptive Notes: Advertisement on back for jobber (skilled seamstress sewing); lists agent in Elmira, NY.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: Dorcas Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: Dorcas sewing machine (shuttle machine).
Descriptive Notes: List of agents in Boston.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: The American Combination button-hole and sewing machine has no equal.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Descriptive Notes: Drawing of a medal inscribed "Recompenses: Exposition Universelle de MDCCCLXVIIA Pans"; gives two salesroom addresses- Philadelphia, New York City (two copies of this item in this folder).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: Otis Kendall, Agent
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 41 Avon Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an oxen pulling a wagon]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring an oxen pulling a wagon.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [The No.7: trade card]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7-American.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card describes the no.7 machine as "lightest running, durable… Best for young and old".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: GC Druchen, Agent
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: BF Dreisbach, Agent, Berwick, PA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: FN Tompkins, Agent, Hamilton, NY
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: HNP Hubbard Agent, Plymouth, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: 7.
Agent information: 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the side of a stream; and a picture of No. 7 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: American Sewing Machine: no.7.
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: 7- Style A, A 1/2, B, C.
Descriptive Notes: Four drawings of no. 7 showing table and machinery.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: American Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring the New American Sewing Machine at the Centennial of 1876]
Imprint: 1876, [S.l.], American Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Model represented: New American sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card redeemable for entry into drawing for a new sewing machine -on display in Machinery hall, 1876 Centennial Exhibition.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Avery Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Avery Manufacturing Company
Title: The Avery beats the world. / Lightest running sewing machine ever made.
Imprint: [Between 1875 and 1887], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Bridgeport, CT
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring the "Best machine for agents to sell". Card also states "Agents wanted".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 3
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Standard Company Name: Bartholf Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Bartholf Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Title: [Correspondence to and from Bartholf, CO]
Imprint: 1859, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: New York, NY
Model represented: Machine for tailors and shoe/ (cobblers?).
Descriptive Notes: Two testimonials-describing usefulness and satisfaction with the machine from wholesale clothing warehouse companies.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: L. Philip Beers
Company Name on Item: L. Philip Beers
Title: [Sewing machines, the first and only machines ever manufactured that has received first premiums for its general adaptation to all kinds of work in Europe and America]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: 473 Broadway, New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: Machine will hem, bind and cord without basting, will not cause machine work to ravel; machine received 1st premium over other competitors.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Blees Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Blees Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the Blees sewing machine salesrooms]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1873], Nashua, New Hampshire, White Pub. Co.
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: Howard & Hyde; #01 Central St., Lowell, Mass.
Descriptive Notes: Red and white label on brown background with tan border carries name Howard and Hyde general agents for the Blees sewing machine. Salesrooms at 01 Central Street, Lowell, Mass.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: C.M. Boland
Company Name on Item: C.M. Boland
Title: [Trade card featuring the only sewing machine suitable for sewing furs]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 194 Elm St., New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: C.H. Boland sewing machine for furs; patented 1878; reissued 1881; patent pending 1885.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Boligano Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Boligano Manufacturing Company
Title: [Correspondence to B. G. Johnson, West Chester, PA, confirming shipment of one no. 1 motor]
Imprint: 1894/07/24, Baltimore, MD, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Baltimore, MD
Model represented: No. 1 motor.
Descriptive Notes: Bill for motor (possibly a replacement motor).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: E. Bonnans
Company Name on Item: E. Bonnans
Title: [Trade card advertising E. Bonnans]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 4 Rue des 3 Images, Marseilles, France
Descriptive Notes: Very plain trade card; name E. Bonnans is superimposed over sewing machine image; name of business and address is all that is given.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 :