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
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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: 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
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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
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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
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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: 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
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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
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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
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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 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: E. Bonnans
Company Name on Item: E. Bonnans
Title: [Trade card featuring La Parisienne]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: 4 Rue des Troismages, Marseilles, France.
Model represented: La Parisienne.
Agent information: E. Bonnans
Descriptive Notes: La Parisienne seems to be this companies sole product; it will do pleating, attach soutache and other techniques; card is in French.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Boston Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Boston Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the Boston new family sewing machine] / Simple, easy running fast running, durable.
Imprint: [188_], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Corner Albany & Dover Sts., Boston, Mass.
Model represented: Boston.
Agent information: Allen K. Bangs, 215 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card promoting interest in the Boston sewing machine, a simple, easy running, fast running, and durable machine; for family use and manufacturing purposes; it is unsurpassed by any other machines manufactured; machine is pictured on reverse side.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Boston Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Boston Sewing Machine Company
Title: The easy running Boston sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1881 and 1888], Boston, MA, [s.n.]
Pages: 14
Notes: Company address: Boston, MA
Models represented: $40 No.1-light running Boston sewing machine, $45 No.2-fast running, $47.50 No.3-perfect running, $50 No.4-easy running, $55 No.5-light running, $60 No.6-fast running, $75 No.7-perfect running, $80-125 No.8-easy running.
Descriptive Notes: Picture of under-side of machine; advertising lingo.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Boston Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Boston Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade cards by Boston Sewing Machine] / The Boston: "New family sewing machine."
Imprint: [Between 1881 and 1888], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Boston, MA
Model represented: The Boston.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of Boston Sewing Machine Company sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Bradbury Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Bradbury Sewing Machine Company
Title: New improved Bradbury sewing machine, with complete universal feed.
Imprint: [Between 1881 and 1924], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Oldham, Great Britain
Model represented: Genuine English Bradbury.
Descriptive Notes: Bradbury machine for sewing shoes features descriptions of ad for Acme universal jack.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Gebruder Brehmer Maschinen Fabrik
Company Name on Item: Brehmer Brothers
Title: [Shipping documents declared to the US consulate] / [Sewing machine purchase; of a corner stitcher and linen thread]
Imprint: 1886/09/24, Leipzig, Germany, [United States. Consulate (Leipzig, Germany)]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Agent information: Brehmer Brothers
Descriptive Notes: Declaration to U.S. Consulate of sewing machines being shipped to Philadelphia, PA; bill of sale from Leipzig, Germany to Philadelphia, PA.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 6 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Company
Company Name on Item: Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Oil of Chicago
Title: The Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Co. / A sewing machine that runs itself.
Imprint: 1893, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 15
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Special features; runs without treadle; driven by power stored in springs and connected to machine by gearing thus eliminating the belt; included in booklet are testimonials of pleased users of the Brosius sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 6
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Standard Company Name: Butterfield & Stevens
Company Name on Item: Butterfield and Stevens
Title: Patent wax thread sewing machine.
Imprint: [1854], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Boston, MA
Descriptive Notes: Information on using Butterfield machines for boots and shoes with wax thread.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: H.J. Carpenter
Company Name on Item: H.J. Carpenter
Title: [Trade card for repairer of sewing machines] / With L. & A. Babcock's piano and organ house.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwich, NY
Descriptive Notes: Plain information card stating the business, proprietor, location and affiliations.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: H.J. Carpenter
Company Name on Item: H.J. Carpenter
Title: [Trade card for repairer of sewing machines] / Don’t smash it but wait for H.J. Carpenter.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Marathon, NY
Agent information: L & A Babcock
Descriptive Notes: Sales promotion to acquaint the public with the services of Mr. H. Jay Carpenter who repairs sewing machines; his reputation for excellent workmanship is praised.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Cash Buyers Union
Company Name on Item: Cash Buyers Union
Title: [Arlington, buy direct from manufacturer and save 10 yr. Written warranty]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: 158-164 Van Buren St. Dept. 4, Chicago, Ill.
Model represented: Arlington Sewing machine style No. 15.
Descriptive Notes: This ad is a newspaper clipping; showing the Arlington sewing machine; 10 year warranty; light running, noiseless, adjustable for heavy or light work.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: Instructions for operating Chandler side-plaiting machine no. 23, style B.
Imprint: 1906/3/31, Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 12
Notes: Model represented: Chandler Side-plaiting Machine No. 23, style B.
Descriptive Notes: Manual features a listing of parts, instructions for setting-up the plaiter, and instructions on how to proceed.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: [Hints on steaming process and apparatus]
Imprint: 19th cent., Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 12
Notes: Agent information: Chandler Co.
Descriptive Notes: Although the French accordion plaiting machine is mentioned, the discussion is directed to the steaming apparatus used to press the accordion pleats.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: [Catalogue of cams for Chandler ruching machine style E]
Imprint: 19th cent., Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 15
Notes: Model represented: Chandler Ruching Machine Style E.
Descriptive Notes: This is a catalogue of the cams used on the ruching machine, which produces a variety and range of plaits, made by the different cam motions.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: How to cut and how to make a sun ray accordion plaited garment no. 28.
Imprint: 19th cent., Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 12
Notes: Model represented: Chandler Sun-ray Accordion Plaiting Machine.
Descriptive Notes: Very specific directions on how to cut and make a sun-ray accordion plaited garment.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: General catalog of special machinery.
Imprint: 19th cent., Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 17
Notes: Models represented: French Accordion Plaiting Machine, Chandler Sun-ray Accordion Plaiting Machine., Chandler Side Plaiting Machine-Style B, Chandler Steaming Plant, Chandler Pinking Machine, Chandler Ruching Machine, Chandler Pinker Folding gauge.
Descriptive Notes: Catalog features all machines invented by Mr. Chandler; they have revolutionized plaitings and ruchings.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chandler Co.
Company Name on Item: Chandler Co.
Title: Chandler pinking machine, style E.
Imprint: 19th cent., Ayer, Mass., Chandler Co.
Pages: 4
Notes: Model represented: Chandler Pinking Machine Style E.
Descriptive Notes: Instruction for using the Chandler pinking machine and its various cutters.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and kittens in school setting] / Exhibit in annex of machinery hall, world's fair.
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, Chicago Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of cat and kittens in a school setting.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Testimonial sheet sent to potential customer from Chicago Sewing Machine]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11.
Descriptive Notes: Sheet of testimonials.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Price list sent to potential customer from Chicago Sewing Machine Company]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11.
Descriptive Notes: Price list.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Envelope from correspondence from Chicago Sewing Machine Company]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11.
Descriptive Notes: Envelope from correspondence from Chicago Sewing Machine Company.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with potential customer from Chicago Sewing Machine Company, includes price list and testimonials]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11.
Descriptive Notes: Letter from Chicago Sewing Machine Company to potential customer.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and kittens in school setting] / Exhibit in annex of machinery hall, world's fair.
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, Chicago Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of cat and kittens in a school setting.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a sail boat and a row boat in a body of water] / Exhibit in annex of machinery hall, world's fair.
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, Chicago Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of a sail boat and a row boat in a body of water.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and kittens in a school setting] / Exhibit in annex of machinery hall, world's fair.
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, Chicago Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of cat and kittens in a school setting.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Chicago Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and kittens in school setting] / Exhibit in annex of machinery hall, world's fair.
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1890], Chicago, IL, Chicago Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of cat and kittens in a school setting.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: A.D. Clark Shuttle Company
Company Name on Item: A.D. Clark Shuttle Co.
Title: Power and hand loom shuttles. / Bobbins and spools of all kind.
Imprint: 1850, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Danielsonville, Conn.
Descriptive Notes: A.D. Clark Shuttle Co. are manufacturers of power and hand loom shuttles and deal also in bobbins and spools of all kinds used in the universal trades.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Cobb and Co.
Company Name on Item: Cobb and Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring Cobb's improved sewing, embroidery, gimp, fringe and ruffling machine]
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 3
Notes: Company address: 182 1/2 Harrison Ave., Boston, Mass.
Model represented: H.D. Walott's patent graduating button-hole cutters.
Descriptive Notes: For families shirt and dressmakers, the smaller button hole cutters cut button holes from 1/4 to 3/4 of an inch; for tailors and tailoresses use no. 1 & 2 which are larger between going from 3/8 of an inch to 1 1/2 inch; (No. 1) button hole.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Coburn Shuttle Company
Company Name on Item: Coburn Shuttle Co.
Title: Silk and Sawyer spindle shuttles a specialty.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Lincoln Cor. Tanner St., Lowell, Mass.
Descriptive Notes: Our corrugated spindle is superior to any now in use and will save a large percent of waste in weaving; top filling.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Presented by Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company. / Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Imprint: [1876], New York, NY, Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 6
Notes: Company address: New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: Facsimile of signers of Declaration of Independence; picture of Declaration of Independence being signed; text about Coles machine and its features, including universal feed motion, reversible presser foot, and universal braider.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 6
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Standard Company Name: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Presented by Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company. / Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Imprint: [1876], New York, NY, Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 6
Notes: Company address: New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: Facsimile of signers of Declaration of Independence; picture of Declaration of Independence being signed; text about Coles machine and its features, including universal feed motion, reversible presser foot, and universal braider.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 6
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Standard Company Name: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Coles Universal Feed Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Coles universal feed sewing machine.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 8
Notes: Company address: 416 W. 14th St., New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: Pamphlet featuring the only sewing machine with universal feed; moves at will of operator; most intricate patterns may be worked without turning fabric; also has universal braider reversible presser foot; stitch indicator and regulator.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Colton Water Motor Company
Company Name on Item: Colton Water Motor Co.
Title: [Letter from vice president of Colton Water Motor Co. to Mr. Webb]
Imprint: 1882/8/4, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
Descriptive Notes: Letter regarding overdue payment due to illness.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Common Sense Family Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Common Sense Family Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Common sense family sewing machine.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Model represented: Common Sense family sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Instruction manual for using the Common sense family sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: J.W. Cook
Company Name on Item: J.W. Cook Dealer in Bags & Bagging Materials
Title: [Receipt for purchase of grommets]
Imprint: 1871/9/22, [S.l.], A.B. Walling
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Front Street, Portland Oregon
Descriptive Notes: This a receipt for the purchase of 2 gross bags of grommets bought from J.W. Cook.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: S.E. Currier
Company Name on Item: S.E. Currier
Title: [Trade card featuring sewing machines needles, shuttles, bobbins, oil cans] / Sole manufacturer of the mechanical needle sharpener and whetstone.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: 5 Haymarket Square
Model represented: Mechanical needle sharpener.
Descriptive Notes: S.E. Currier is sole manufacturer of the mechanical needle sharpener and whetstone.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 4
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Standard Company Name: Dauntless Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: New Dauntless
Title: [Trade card featuring the New Dauntless threading machine] / The best self-threading machine.
Imprint: [between 187_ and 188_], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Agent information: S.C. Noyes; Fisherville, N.H.
Descriptive Notes: Sea scenes, sailboat in distance, mermaids playing among sea shells.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Dauntless Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: New Dauntless
Title: [Trade card featuring the New Dauntless sewing machine, best threading machine ever invented]
Imprint: [between 187_ and 188_], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Model represented: New Dauntless.
Agent information: S.C. Noyes, Fisherville, N.H.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a seaside scene with King Neptune leading team of horses and a coach made of sea shells; in the distance over the water is a large sailing vessel with many sails.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Dauntless Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: New Dauntless
Title: [Trade card featuring the New Dauntless sewing machine, best threading machine ever invented]
Imprint: [between 187_ and 188_], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Model represented: New Dauntless.
Agent information: S.C. Noyes, Fisherville, N.H.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing sea scene; mermaids playing amidst the various shells; out on the water is seen a sailboat and a steam vessel.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Dauntless Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: New Dauntless
Title: [Trade card featuring the New Dauntless] / The best self-threading machine ever invented.
Imprint: [between 1877 and 1882], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Model represented: New Dauntless sewing machine.
Agent information: S.C. Noyes; Fisherville, N.H.
Descriptive Notes: Mermaids, seashells, coral, seaweed, sailboat, beach adorn the front of this trade card; verso shows the New Dauntless sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Aaron Davis
Company Name on Item: Aaron Davis
Title: [Endorsement of sewing machine manufacturers by Pattern Maker, Aaron Davis]
Imprint: [1870/1], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Frederick City, MD
Descriptive Notes: Recommendation by Aaron Davis of J. (sic) M. Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, ... & Baker, Florence and Elias Howe sewing machines as advertised on the back cover of his coat pattern booklet.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Pattern Industry. Box: 1 : Folder 0, Davis, Aaron
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine. / Does all work without basting.
Imprint: [1869-], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [1874-1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis improved vertical feed shuttle sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1870], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 3
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], Boston, Heliotype Printing Co.
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: 192 Broadway, New York, NY
Descriptive Notes: Scale map and description of the Davis Sewing Machine factory.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Barlow's Insurance Surveys. Box: 1 : Folder 5
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 8
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Price list of machines; "see what the vertical feed sewing machine will do without basting".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 8
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Price list of machines; "See what the vertical feed sewing machine will do with out basting".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis sewing machines. / The best on earth.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 20
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 20
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch work done on a Davis Sewing Machine of a bald eagle.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 20
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Cover features a copy of stitch work done on a Davis Sewing Machine of a bald eagle.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: New high arm Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], Watertown, NY, [s.n.]
Pages: 8
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10.
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Collection of children's poems - featuring line drawing]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], [S.l.], Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 14
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis sewing machines. / The best on earth.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1899], Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 20
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two children sitting on a log.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of the Davis Sewing Machine factory.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring picture of boats at sail and a lighthouse.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl in a flower garden.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Decal shaped like a leaf] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine: no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Decal shaped like a leaf.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three baby pictures, each with a different emotion.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman sitting on a bench with a flower in her hand.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a red shoe with a dance program and flowers inside]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring red shoe with a dance program and flowers inside.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Decal shaped like a sewing machine on a sewing machine stand.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral arrangement.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral arrangement and a bird's nest containing three eggs.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral bouquet] / Vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral bouquet.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade catalog featuring a flag with a emblem of a sea-side cottage.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman in a bonnet with a parasol.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl at a sewing machine with a woman overseeing her work.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring pictures of ships sailing in the distance and rocks in the foreground.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], Watertown, NY, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring young woman with ornate jewelry.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facsimile of embroidery work done on the Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman on a park bench.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry] / Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899], Watertown, NY, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with ornate jewelry.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl holding three snow balls.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a little boy at a riverside.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two women and a clown-like character, with directional sign to Utah.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman shooting another woman with one gun and pointing a second gun to her head.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a bouquet of flowers in an extended hand]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a bouquet of flowers in an extended hand back lists address for obtaining a descriptive circular.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy carrying an umbrella] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young boy carrying an umbrella.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of an angel with a trumpet, hovering over a sewing machine and a table.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman at a sewing machine with a young girl watching.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young woman with two baskets of flowers.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a frog 'waving' to two ducks] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a frog 'waving' to two ducks.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a cat, with a bird in its mouth, being approached by a cat.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl with a fan] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl with a fan.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a frog, wearing clothes, lounging in the sun.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a dog on a chain being taunted by two mice.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Vertical feed sewing machine. / No cogs, no feed teeth, no annoyances.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Picture of floral bouquet on cover.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring young girl dressed in a flowing dress.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl, an insert of a lighthouse] / Advance sewing machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a little girl, an insert of a lighthouse; includes description of the advance machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a snow covered bridge and trees with a river underneath]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a snow covered bridge and trees with a river underneath.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a bird on a limb, overlooking a river. A snow covered house is in the background.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three children in a meadow] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a green dress] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman on a swing] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a man and a woman dancing] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a floral image with a bird's nest with eggs]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a floral image with a bird's nest with eggs; sample embroidery included.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little girl with a small dog] / Davis has no equal.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring 3 children, in colonial dress, sword fighting]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two children, in colonial dress, marching and carrying musical instruments]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Envelope addressed to M.A. Kamp, Esquire]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Envelope addressed to M.A. Kamp, Esquire.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman in a hat. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby picture]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a baby picture. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby picture] / Momma's got a Davis Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a baby picture. On the back, the text of the Davis Sewing Machine song.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a picture of a Davis sewing machine and a picture of a bridge over a brook.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a embroidered bouquet done on a Davis sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 9
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence with Mr. Kamp]
Imprint: [Between 1874 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Discusses problems mentioned in initial letter.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: 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, Watertown, NY, [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Features a picture of a seal, for the Medal of Honor, 1876 Centennial Exhibition.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for shuttle bobbin.]
Imprint: 1876, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for shuttle bobbin for $1.50.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: 1776-1876, Centennial handbook. / Presented by Davis Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint: 1876, Watertown, NY, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 32
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Information about Philadelphia, Great Exhibition, Centennial Buildings, Machinery Hall; pictures of many Exhibition buildings; map of Exhibition.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: 1776-1876, Centennial handbook. / Presented by Davis Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint: 1876, Watertown, NY, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 32
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Information about Philadelphia, Great Exhibition, Centennial Buildings, Machinery Hall; pictures of many Exhibition buildings; map of Exhibition.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: 1876, [S.l.], Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 32
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.
Descriptive Notes: Great Exhibition 1876.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine.
Imprint: 1880, Watertown, NY, [s.n.]
Pages: 16
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Models represented: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9.
Descriptive Notes: Lists of salesrooms.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Office of the Daily Terror.
Imprint: 1882, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes:
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis
Title: Office of the Daily Terror.
Imprint: 1882, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes:
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Kamf, Silver Creek, Illinois, for two machines]
Imprint: 1883, Chicago, IL, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for two sewing machines, $21.50 and $22.50 marked paid in full date: April 23, 1883.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Kamf, Silver Creek, Illinois, for two sewing machines]
Imprint: 1883, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for two sewing machines, $21.50 and $22.50 marked paid in full date: May 5, 1883.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Two checks to Mr. Kamf for $44.00]
Imprint: 1883, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Two checks from Davis Sewing Machine Company to Mr. Kamf.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Labels]
Imprint: 1885, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Davis company logo; picture of Davis Company offices.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Labels]
Imprint: 1885, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Watertown, NY
Descriptive Notes: Davis company logo; picture of Davis Company offices.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Invoice for Mr. Karuf, Silver Creek, IL for one shuttle, $.64]
Imprint: 1887/02/24, Chicago, IL, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Invoice for shuttle at $.60, and post at $.04.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: The last sheaf: thus beautiful picture represents a landscape in Normandy.
Imprint: 1889, Chicago, IL, Davis Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
Descriptive Notes: Advertisement for an oil painting - for $. 25 receive painting and 1890 calendar - young girl leaving a harvest with sheaf on her shoulder.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 7
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Title: Davis vertical feed sewing machine. / Best on earth.
Imprint: 1892, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 24
Notes: Company address: Dayton, OH
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 8
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Standard Company Name: Davis Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Davis Manufacturing Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the advance sewing machine] / Most quiet, lightest running.
Imprint: 19th cent., [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes:
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.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Demorest Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Correspondence from Demorest Manufacturing Company to George W. Smith]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1908], Williamsport, PA, Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Plattsburgh, NY
Descriptive Notes: Correspondence requesting Mr. Smith begin selling Demorest sewing machines as agent.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Demorest Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Title: Drawing ticket for Demorest sewing machine. / "A revolution in the sewing machine wind."
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1908], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Plattsburgh, NY
Descriptive Notes: Ticket given out at "Fair"; certification for drawing.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Demorest Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring Demorest Sewing Machine]
Imprint: [Between 1882 and 1908], New York, NY, Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Plattsburgh, NY
Model represented: Lock-stitch sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of "The Christmas Present"; front is a floral design. "Marson Demorest".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 10
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Standard Company Name: Demorest Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item: Demorest Fashion and Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Advertisement for the Demorest sewing machine]
Imprint: 1890, Astor Place, New York, J.J. Little & Co.
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: 17 East 14th St., New York City
Descriptive Notes: Advertisement in Mme. Demorest's illustrated portfolio of the fashions and what to wear; a Demorest sewing machine is available for $19.50.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Pattern Industry. Box: 1 : Folder 6
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic
Title: [Business card of E.W. Penney, Eastport, L.I.]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: Mrs. E.W. Penney
Descriptive Notes: Business card of E.W. Penney, Eastport, NY.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 : Folder 22
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Decal.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Star decal with sewing machine in center.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Label for Domestic sewing machine needles.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: No. 25 Domestic Sewing Machine needles.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of domestic headquarters]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Picture of domestic headquarters Broadway and 14th, New York City.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two birds]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Two birds over bird. Ad for Albany, NY dealer.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Grand exhibition of sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Describing exhibition of sewing machine in Petersburg, VA.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three young girls and a mother sitting around a sewing machine while mother reads] / It makes home happy.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 8.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring three young girls and a mother sitting around a sewing machine while mother reads.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three young girls and a mother sitting around a sewing machine while mother reads] / It makes home happy.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 8.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring three young girls and a mother sitting around a sewing machine while mother reads.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Domestic dress form, domestic skirt-form, domestic folding skirt form.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Picture of forms.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Light-Running 'Domestic' Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Ad describing use of Domestic machine in both family and factory settings.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Light-running Domestic sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Ad describing use of Domestic machine in both family and factory settings.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl in a farmyard, a young girl eating an apple and leaning against a tree; and pictures of Domestic sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4.
Descriptive Notes: Features young girl in a farmyard; back: features young girl eating an apple and leaning against a tree; and pictures of Domestic Sewing Machines Nos. 2, 3, 4.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl in a farmyard, a young girl eating an apple and leaning against a tree; and pictures of Domestic sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4.
Descriptive Notes: Features young girl in a farmyard; back: features young girl eating an apple and leaning against a tree; and pictures of Domestic Sewing Machines Nos. 2, 3, 4.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman sewing] / Alex Mahan piano organs, and sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], Cortland, NJ, Mahan, Alex
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Woman sewing; information about Alex Mahan's invention of piano organs.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a Jersey cow in field] / Prize Jersey cow.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 3.
Descriptive Notes: Jersey cow in field; No. 3 ($60).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an engraving a cat in front of fire place]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Engraving of cat in front of fire place; ad for Domestic paper pattern.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a lake scene]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Engraving of a lake scene; "Light running Domestic" advertisement.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card] / Buy the light running Domestic.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Design with scene image.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young child with bowl of fruit]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4 - family - back 2.
Descriptive Notes: Young child with bowl of fruit; man and woman sitting room.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman on cover] / But the light domestic sewing machine…
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: Standard machine (2) covered on the table.
Descriptive Notes: Woman on cover; illustration of machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wrapped in blue sheet "peeling nut"] / Have you seen the latest light running sewing machine?
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Young girl wrapped in blue sheet "peeling nut".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a family in carriage looking at a Domestic Sewing Machine Company sign] / It stands at the head; the start that leads them.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Family in carriage looking at Domestic Sewing Machine Company sign.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring the phrase "$35 and up"] / Domestic Sewing Machine try one and you will surely buy one.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: $35 and up graphic design.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring images of bride and groom at reception, with sewing machine in background]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of bride and groom in wedding attire at sewing machine with party (reception) going on in the background.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an engraving of dog in family room with standing clock in background]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Engraving of a dog in a family room with standing clock in background; ad for domestic paper pattern.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a Jersey cow with spots] / $30,000 Jersey cow.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Jersey cow with spot; drawing of attachments that accompany all Domestic Sewing Machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a couple on front porch] / "Yes my grandfather was a great Antiquarian."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Couple on front on porch; text: "to all loves".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an old man digging] / "Where he studied antiquity."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: It stands at the head; the light running Domestic.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Picture of machine; advertisement.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Instrumental manual]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 32
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a sample of machines work] / Work of the domestic sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Sample of machine's work.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two young children by a stream; one in tree; one fishing]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Two young children by stream, one in tree; one "fishing".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a body of water with a barn or house across the way]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card features a body of water with a barn or horse across the way, night time scene; back features text about the button hole worker.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 2
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a horse shoe and an image of Domestic's Number 4 sewing machine] / Light running Domestic: it stands the heat.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a horse shoe and an image of Domestic's Number 4 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 12
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: Family machine 4, Family machine 3.
Descriptive Notes: Poem about the machine and its usefulness.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 12
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: Family machine 4, Family machine 3.
Descriptive Notes: Poem about the machine and its usefulness.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 12
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: Family machine 4, Family machine 3.
Descriptive Notes: Poem about the machine and its usefulness.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 12
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: Family machine 4, Family machine 3.
Descriptive Notes: Poem about the machine and its usefulness.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a home scene with three women and one little girl] / It makes happy homes.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 8.
Descriptive Notes: Home scene with three women and one little girl.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman under a tree, with a girl and a dog and a graphic of a star with a sewing machine in the center] / Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a woman under a tree, with a girl and a dog and a graphic of a star with a sewing machine in the center.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a farm scene with a Victorian house]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a farm scene with a Victorian house; the back features a sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a family with a coachmen in a two horse carriage, looking at a poster for the Domestic Sewing Machine] / It stands the heat.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of a family with a coachman; two horse carriage looking at poster for Domestic sewing machine; elegant, large home in background.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a family with one horse and a wagon, looking at poster advertisement for a Domestic sewing machine] / It stands the heat.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of an African-American family with one horse and a wagon-looking at poster; advertisement for a Domestic sewing machine; advertisement called "It stands the heat".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a family greeting 'traveling salesman']
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: African American family greeting "traveling salesman". goat "eating" coat tails of salesman.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a bull in pasture] / Prize Jersey bull Pedro.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Bull in pasture. back: attachments
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a family playing: three children climbing on father; one child holding flag with "The Star that Leads Them all" printed on it] / The star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Family playing (3 children climbing on father - one holding flag with "The Star that Leads them All" printed on it; Mother watching boat with Domestic Company sail in background.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a poster- " The star that leads all"]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Poster saying: "The star that leads all"; in foreground- African American family in wagon-reading poster.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two people in a wagon with a machine in wagon]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of two African Americans in wagon with a sewing machine in background, child running behind dialog box saying "We don got de 'Domestic' we has."
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a battle scene] / First blow for liberty.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Close up of battle scene with British soldiers in background; wounded women and men in battle.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a woman and a picture of a sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running domestic" around it] / It stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a picture of a woman and picture of the sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running Domestic" around it.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy on horse back, carrying vegetables and wearing ethnic dress]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Young boy on horse back carrying vegetables dressed in ethnic dress.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a cat and a kitten in the left corner and an advertisement for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company office in New York City on Broadway and 14th Streets.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby crying in yard with bowl of porridge in which a frog jumped; a dog is looking at the baby and a woman is opening a door to the house and looking toward the baby]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring baby crying in yard with bowl of porridge in which a frog jumped; a dog is looking at the baby and a woman is opening a door to the house and looking toward the baby.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a baby crying in yard with bowl of porridge in which a frog jumped; a dog is looking at the baby and a woman is opening a door to the house and looking toward the baby]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring baby crying in yard with bowl of porridge in which a frog jumped; a dog is looking at the baby and a woman is opening a door to the house and looking toward the baby.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Star that leads them all stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a horse shoe and an image of Domestic's Number 4 sewing machine] / Light running Domestic: it stands the heat.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a horse shoe and an image of Domestic's Number 4 sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a woman and a picture of a sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running domestic" around it] / It stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a picture of a woman and picture of the sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running Domestic" around it.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a profile view of young girl in formal dress]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Profile view of young girl in formal dress; ad for "Domestic paper pattern".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a woman and a picture of a sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running domestic" around it] / It stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a picture of a woman and picture of the sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running Domestic" around it.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a color drawing of a crowd looking at Domestic billboards]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4.
Descriptive Notes: Crowd scene looking at Domestic billboards.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a house next to water wheel with women and child walking on bridge near wheel] / Buy the light running domestic.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: House next to water wheel woman and child walking on bridge near wheel.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Ill untreated catalogue of Domestic sewing machines.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 10
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4, 5 pictures of foot hemmer, binder, plate hemmers, corder, ruffler, tucker.
Descriptive Notes: Domestic building text about business/sewing machines industry.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Once in a while.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Primarily text ad/testimonials about domestic and its use.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring an old man digging] / "Where he studied antiquity."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a couple on front porch] / "Yes my grandfather was a great Antiquarian."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Couple on front on porch; text: "to all loves".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman under a tree, with a girl and a dog and a graphic of a star with a sewing machine in the center] / Star that leads them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a woman under a tree, with a girl and a dog and a graphic of a star with a sewing machine in the center.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a picture of a woman and a picture of a sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running domestic" around it] / It stands at the head.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Featuring a picture of a woman and picture of the sewing machine surrounded by a horse-shoe with the text "The light running Domestic" around it.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a tall woman telling short women to buy domestic sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring tall women telling short women to buy domestic. Copyrighted by Frank S. Hine. Back has horseshoe image with no. 4 and "The light running Domestic, it stands at the head".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy riding a rabbit]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Young boy riding a rabbit.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring sheep in pasture] / Prize Lincoln Buck Wilson.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 2.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring sheep in a pasture; the back shows a no. 2 machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three woman sewing in a formal room]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Three women sitting in elegant room; one at machine, two cutting cloth; sewer with bonnet in background.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two women at the edge of a body of water]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Two young women at waters edge.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a sewing machine store] / Best and cheapest machines and perfect fitting patterns
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Domestic Sewing Machine store; two women and one man in a women's clothing store front window.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl blowing bubbles containing miniature sewing machines]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Young girl blowing bubbles which have sewing machines in them.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring pictures of needlework done on sewing machines]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Art needle work made on machine; picture of a woman in red dress over mantle.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three little girls sewing clothing for dolls] / The improved Domestic sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 7.
Descriptive Notes: Three little girls at sewing machine working on doll clothes; back shows the no. 7 machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman in Athenian dress]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Woman in Athenian dress with blue bird on arm.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a cow] / $30,000 Jersey Cow Rarity.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a cow; the back shows the no. 4 machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two girls using sewing machine to make clothing for dolls] / The improved Domestic Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 8.
Descriptive Notes: Two girls using a Domestic machine to make doll clothes; picture of no. 8.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring bull in pasture] / Prize Jersey Bull Pedro.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a bull in a pasture; back has a drawing of an attachment.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring women in wagon with mule bucking, toppling the wagon and dumping the sewing machine on the ground] / "You've made a mistake! Should have bought a domestic w/ new wood work and attachments. Even the mule knows it."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Women in wagon with mule bucking, toppling wagon and dumping sewing machine on ground; All for "Two Orphan's" at Peck's Grand Opera House.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a tree with Munchkin-like people up the limbs, talking about the value of Domestic sewing machine] / The star that lead them all.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Tree with Munchkin-like people up the limbs - talking about the value of Domestic sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a little boy in yard with a pie next to him, looking at an orange tree]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Little boy in yard with pie next to him looking at orange tree; back: text about radical departure in new Domestic machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a farm scene, including cows, pigs, hens]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Farm scene, cows, pigs, and hens.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring people sitting near a Domestic sewing machine] / In a rapt ecstatic way, it is intensely interesting, the light running Domestic Sewing Machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Picture of a person sitting at a Domestic Sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a house next to water wheel women and child walking on bridge near wheel] / Buy the light running domestic.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: House next to water wheel, woman and child walking on bridge near wheel.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a profile view of young girl in formal dress]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Profile view of young girl in formal dress; ad for "Domestic paper pattern".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a color drawing of a crowd looking at Domestic billboards]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4.
Descriptive Notes: Crowd scene looking at Domestic billboards.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring head shots of four children]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Implied
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Four children, head shots; ad for Chicago sales place of Domestic Sewing Machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 14
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a barn yard scene]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 4.
Descriptive Notes: Barn/halfway house, wagons with hay, horses, workmen; no. 4 under horse shoe - "The light running Domestic. It stands at the head".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
Item Image Available:

Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a marriage proposal]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a man proposing and women saying "Yes on condition that you buy me a Domestic."
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Die domestic Nahmaschine Gebrauchs- Anleitung.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 32
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Detailed drawings of machine-operating instructions; cover features pictures of office/factory.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Illustrated catalogue of Domestic sewing machines.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 10
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2, 3, 4, 5 pictures of foot hemmer, binder, plate hemmers, corder, ruffler, tucker.
Descriptive Notes: Domestic building text about business/sewing machines industry.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a beach scene] / Buy the light running Domestic sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card of beach scene: little boy running in sand with chicken held by feet.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring globes] / Study the faces and buy the "Domestic."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 3
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring globes with text: "The light running Domestic the best in the world: more than million in use".
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: The light running Domestic family and manufacturing sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 16
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-leather, 10-tailoring, 11-manufacturing.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card, describes variety machines and company history.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: Price list of the world renowned "Domestic" with latest improvements.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 8
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Models represented: 2 1/2, 3, 4, 7, 20.
Descriptive Notes: Prices includes address and name of local vendor.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a prize jersey cow]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 3.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a prize jersey cow.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 11
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card] / "For one dollar we will send the "domestic monthly" one year and one dollar worth of domestic patterns."
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card for Fletcher and Stewart, agents for Domestic]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card advertising Fletcher and Stewart,agents for Domestic.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a boar in a barn yard] / Prize Chester White Boar Kennett.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Model represented: 2.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a boar in a barn yard; the back shows a no. 2 machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card for Domestic Machines] / the star that leads them.
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a Star (gold) and picture of sewing machine; ad campaign related to (models 3, 4, 5).
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 12
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a small boy in colonial dress and a large white cat]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Small boy in colonial dress and a large cat white.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 13
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Standard Company Name: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item: Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring children around a Domestic sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two children (girl and boy) under machine - girl holding doll.