Sewing Machines:  Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Business card of B.F. Demarree, agent]
Imprint: [18--], Newport, Pa., [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: B.F. Demarree, Newport, Perry Co., Pa.
Descriptive Notes: Business card of B.F. Demarree, agent, featuring a branch of holly and winter landscape.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 26 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Trade card featuring a facade]
Imprint: [18--], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a facade.
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 : Folder 16
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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Stereoscopic photos featuring a woman sitting next to a sewing machine and repairing a boy's trousers]
Imprint: [19--], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Stereoscopic photos featuring a woman sitting next to a sewing machine and repairing a boy's trousers.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Stereoscopic photos featuring man kneeling next to a sewing machine]
Imprint: [19--], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Stereoscopic photos featuring man kneeling next to a sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Postcard featuring the Singer Building, New York]
Imprint: [1906?], New York, NY, Allied Printing
Pages: 2
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: How to operate your magic zig-zag sewing machine.
Imprint: [1956], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 31
Notes: Model represented: Zig-zag.
Descriptive Notes: Photographs of zig-zag machine; instructions with detailed diagrams.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 12 : Folder 5
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Company Name on Item:
Title: Directions. / The different parts of these machines are made by machinery, in the most perfect manner.
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1880], [S.l.], Curtis and Simonds, printers
Pages: 4
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Directions for threading and oiling the machine; possibly called New England or Common Sense machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 3
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Company Name on Item: J.H. Williams
Title: [Business card of J.H. Williams, agent]
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Agent information: J.H. Williams
Descriptive Notes: Business card featuring two girls looking in a mirror.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Sheet music: Billy Morris' songs]
Imprint: [Between 1860 and 1899], Boston, A.D. Russell and Company
Pages: 5
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Instruction book in Greek]
Imprint: [between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], Singer Manufacturing Company
Pages: 46
Notes: Model represented: 128.
Descriptive Notes: Instructions, diagrams, and images of machines in use.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 14 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: Directions on the care and use of rotary sewing machines.
Imprint: [Between 1920 and 1949], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 26
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Directions on the care and use of rotary sewing machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 8 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: Instructions for using this hemstitching and picoting attachment.
Imprint: [Between 1920 and 1959], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 16
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Hemstitching; picoting.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 7 : Folder 1
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Company Name on Item:
Title: Instruction book for sewing machine.
Imprint: [Between 1920 and 1959], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 22
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 8 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Lithograph of woman hand sewing in front of a sewing machine]
Imprint: [n.d.], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
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
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: Model Sza-525, light weight zig-zag sewing machine. / Instructions for the use and maintenance of your sewing machine.
Imprint: [n.d.], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 49
Notes: Model represented: SZA-525.
Descriptive Notes: Instructions for use.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 11 : Folder 4
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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: International Exhibition 1862: official catalogue. / Official catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862.
Imprint: 1862, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Sheet music: New Home]
Imprint: 1890, Boston, [s.n.]
Pages: 4
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Sheet music: I'll just send an angel down]
Imprint: 1897, N.Y., Howley, Hariland & Co.
Pages: 1
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Stereoscopic photos featuring a boy eating an apple while woman sitting next to a sewing machine repairs his trousers]
Imprint: 1905, [S.l.], Underwood and Underwood
Pages: 1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Stereoscopic photos featuring a boy eating an apple while woman sitting next to a sewing machine repairs his trousers.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Sheet music: the sewing machine]
Imprint: 1947, New York, Susan Publications, Inc.
Pages: 6
Notes:
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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Company Name on Item:
Title: Directions for using this set of instructions.
Imprint: 1948, [S.l.], B & S, Inc.
Pages: 23
Notes: Models represented: Hemmer, edgestitcher, underbraider, tucker, binding, ruffler, quilter.
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 7 : Folder 1
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Postcard featuring a photograph of boys around a nun at a sewing machine]
Imprint: 1952, New York, Artvue Post Card Co.
Pages: 1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Postcard featuring a photograph of boys around a nun at a sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item:
Title: [Sheet music: Old sewing machine]
Imprint: 1952, N.Y., Music Co., Inc.
Pages: 4
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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Company Name on Item:
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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001 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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002 C.G. Akam

Company Name on Item: C.G. Akam
Title: The ne plus ultra prices of sewing machines to dealers and jobbers who wholesale machines or buy in quantities of C.G. Akam.
Imprint: [Between 1863 and 1889], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 6
Notes:
Descriptive Notes: Short information about various models (New York Singer, Philadelphia Singer, Akam Singer), prices, extra sheet equals front and back cover of the pamphlet (title and images).
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
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003 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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004 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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Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: See what we have here. / The only button-hole making and sewing machine combined that has made its advent in this or any country invite's the attention of manufacturers of shoes…
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1874], [S.l.], Rue and Jones Printer; 108 South Third Street
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: Combination, shuttle or lock stitch and overseaming and button hole machine.
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: See what we have here; the only button-hole making and sewing machine combined that has made its advent in this or any country invite's the attention of manufacturers of shoes.
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1874], [S.l.], Rue and Jones Printer; 108 South Third Street
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: Combination, shuttle or lock stitch and overseaming and button hole machine.
Descriptive Notes: Page taken from book or magazine advertising the American combination machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Flier featuring a picture of a woman in formal dress sitting at a sewing machine]
Imprint: 1874, [S.l.], Potsdamer and Companies Printers; 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Descriptive Notes: Features a woman in formal dress sitting at a sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available: Display Scanned Item: 795

Company Name on Item: American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Flier featuring a picture of a woman in formal dress sitting at a sewing machine]
Imprint: 1874, [S.l.], Potsdamer and Companies Printers; 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Pages: 2
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Descriptive Notes: Features a woman in formal dress sitting at a sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
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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.
Descriptive Notes:
Physical Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 1 : Folder 1
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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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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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005 American Sewing Machine Company

Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: Illustrated price list of the American Sewing Machine. / The simplest, most durable, and best sewing machine in the world.
Imprint: [1873], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 16
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Models represented: Plain American Sewing Machine, No. 1, plain table, drop leaf table, base table, half cabinet, folding table, three quarter cabinet, full cabinet No. 8, full cabinet No. 10.
Descriptive Notes: Catalog showing variety of cabinets available for the American No. 1 and No. 2 machines.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available: Display Scanned Item: 790

Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: When you purchase a sewing machine, buy the best. / None will so thoroughly suit you as the improved American.
Imprint: [1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Company address: Philadelphia, PA
Descriptive Notes: Picture of machine; list of 21 advantages to using the American Sewing machine.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
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Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring girls and young women around sewing machine]
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Model represented: New American 7.
Agent information: B.F. Fowler, Haddonfield, N.J.
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring girls and young woman around sewing machine. Advertisement for model no. 7 on back.
Physical Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 : Folder 0
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Item Image Available:

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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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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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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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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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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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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
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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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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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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:

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:

Company Name on Item: American Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, surrounded by wild flowers at the si