Standard Company Name:	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
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2697

Standard Company Name:	American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
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
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 793

Standard Company Name:	American Button-Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company
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

Standard Company Name:	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

Standard Company Name:	American Sewing Machine Company
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
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 789

Standard Company Name:	Samuel Barker and Thomas White
Company Name on Item:	Brattleboro
Title:	Brattleboro sewing machine. / New patented single thread family machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1858 and 1861], [S.l.], Selleck, Steam Printer
Pages:	6
Notes:	Company address: Brattleboro, VT Model represented: New single thread machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Instructions, diagrams, and images of machines in use.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 800

Standard Company Name:	Bartlett Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Bartlett
Title:	Bartlett's reversible sewing machines are the cheapest, reliable, licensed machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1870 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of hand-powered and foot-powered machine with price ($25.00).
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 798

Standard Company Name:	A.H. Beebe and Company
Company Name on Item:	Rose's Embroidery Needle Attachment
Title:	Rose's embroidery needle attachment to all sewing machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1869 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Directions for installing attachment.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 539

Standard Company Name:	F.O. Berg (Firm)
Company Name on Item:	F.O. Berg
Title:	F.O. Berg's improved pulling device.
Imprint:	[1902], Spokane, WA, F.O. Berg
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Spokane, WA Model represented: An attachment - pulling device.
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of the F.O. Berg pulling device attached to a Union Special Sewing Machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 820

Standard Company Name:	Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Company
Company Name on Item:	Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Company
Title:	Brosius Sewing Machine and Motor Company.
Imprint:	[1893], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	16
Notes:	Company address: Chicago, IL
Descriptive Notes:	History of Brosius company, pictures of machine and plant; picture of factory in St. Charles, IL; map of Chicago Great Western Railroad (p. 14); picture of Fox River, near factory in St. Charles, IL (p. 16).
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 799

Standard Company Name:	Centennial Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Centennial Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The Centennial Sewing Machine. / New elastic lock stitch family sewing machine.
Imprint:	[1876], Phila., PA, Ringwalt & Brown
Pages:	2
Notes:	Company address: Philadelphia, PA Model represented: Elastic lock-stitch.
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of woman sewing by hand, entitled "Sewing in 1776' and a picture of a woman sewing at a machine "Sewing in 1876".
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 806

Standard Company Name:	A. Coulter and Company
Company Name on Item:	A. Coulter and Co.
Title:	Trade price list of standard Singer sewing machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1865 and 1883], Chicago, A. Coulter Co.
Pages:	12
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Needles and supplies list, images of sewing machine stands, information about A. Coulter Co.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2715

Standard Company Name:	Cowles
Company Name on Item:	Cowles
Title:	The Revolution acknowledged. / The success of Cowles Sewing Machine Treadle Universal
Imprint:	[Between 1869 and 1876], New York, NY, [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Granby, CT Agent information: Holmes and Company, NY
Descriptive Notes:	Treadle "all physicians endorse it".
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 531

Standard Company Name:	Crown Sewing Machines and Organs
Company Name on Item:	Crown Sewing Machines and Organs
Title:	[Trade card featuring a Crown sewing machine no. 6]
Imprint:	[Between 1860 and 1899], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	2
Notes:	Model represented: 6. Agent information: Geo. P. Bent, Chicago, Ill. and Kansas City, Mo.
Descriptive Notes:	Trade card featuring Crown sewing machine no. 6, list of advantages on back.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2692

Standard Company Name:	Demorest Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Demorest Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Demorest Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint:	[1891], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	2
Notes:	Company address: Plattsburgh, NY Models represented: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Descriptive Notes:	Price lists; testimonials; attachments.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder Demorest
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 807

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The Domestic sewing machine without a teacher. / Illustrated instructions for quickly and easily learning the use of the machine and the attachments.
Imprint:	[1880], New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages:	52
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	Illustrated instructions.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 874

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The Domestic Sewing Machine. / Desk model used as a utility table.
Imprint:	[1930], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH Models represented: Console model, desk model. Agent information: Lansburgh and Brothers; 7th-8th- E Strs; Wash. DC
Descriptive Notes:	Pictures of Domestic Sewing Machine consoles, showing varied use for the console when the machine is closed. Cover: elegantly dressed woman looking in a mirror with a closed console in the foreground.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 816

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Domestic rotary electric.
Imprint:	[1930], [S.l.], Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH Models represented: Domestic Rotary electric, console, desk, portable, cabinet, treadle. Agent information: Lansburgh and Brothers; 7th-8th-e Strs; Wash, DC
Descriptive Notes:	Cover shows an elegantly dressed woman looking in a mirror with a closed console in the foreground.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 817

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The Domestic Sewing Machine Company of New York / The star that leads them all.
Imprint:	[Between 1869 and 1906], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	16
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH Models represented: 1 - 6 (family), 9 - leather, 10 - cloth manufacturing, ruffler, binder, tucker, under-braider, feller.
Descriptive Notes:	Drawings showing hemming and sewing lace.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 814

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Domestic sewing machine is the best of all. / 50 points of superiority.
Imprint:	[Between 1870 and 1874], [S.l.], Kennard and Hay Stationary Manufacturing and Printing Company
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	50 points about Domestic Sewing Machine that make it superior to all other machines.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 808

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The New "Domestic" Family and Manufacturing Sewing Machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1871 and 1872], [S.l.], Kennard and Hay Stationary Manufacturing and Printing Company
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of sewing machine stands; descriptions of gathering attachments call for new agents to sell Domestic machines.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 810

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Domestic is durable. / The best machine to use and the easiest to sell.
Imprint:	[Between 1871 and 1872], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH Models represented: Cabinet folding top table, folding case table, fancy stand table.
Descriptive Notes:	List of attachments; list of leading points about the Domestic Sewing machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 812

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	[Flier for Domestic Sewing Machine Company]
Imprint:	[Between 1871 and 1872], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	Incomplete (pages missing); picture of folding case table; picture of leather machine table.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 811

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	The Domestic. / Simplicity and perfect construction.
Imprint:	[Between 1871 and 1872], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH Models represented: Half case machine, plain machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Description and prices for plain machine, half case machine. Advantages of Domestic machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 813

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Light running Domestic. / It makes the lock stitch with the least and simple machinery.
Imprint:	1871, [S.l.], Kennard and Hay Stationary Manufacturing and Printing Company
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	Description of the human energy saved by using the Domestic because it is light running.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 809

Standard Company Name:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Domestic almanac for 1881. / Profusely illustrated.
Imprint:	1881, New York, NY, Domestic Sewing Machine Company
Pages:	45
Notes:	Company address: Norwalk, OH
Descriptive Notes:	Advertisements; stories and fairy tales. Sewing machines shown in image 37.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 815

Standard Company Name:	Elliptic Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Elliptic Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Elliptic lock stitch sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1870 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Models represented: 1 plain top, 2 quarter case, half case, 3 half case (2 versions), 4 cabinet machines. Agent information: D.E. Rice; 920 Arch Street, Phil., PA
Descriptive Notes:	Price list for the Elliptic, advertisements for the Elliptic.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 818

Standard Company Name:	English Singer Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	English Singer Sewing Machine Co.
Title:	The English Singer Sewing Machine Co. manufacture the best and finest finished sewing machines ever offered to the public.
Imprint:	[Between 1865 and 1883], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	6
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Agent information: A.J. Brill, Cincinnati, Ohio
Descriptive Notes:	Information about models nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; prices, images of models, list of advantages.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2686

Standard Company Name:	Farmer and Gardner Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Farmer and Gardner Manufacturing Co.
Title:	The Springfields sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1860 and 1890], Springfield, Mass., Powers Paper Co.
Pages:	16
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4. Agent information: H.B. Goodrich, Chicago
Descriptive Notes:	Information about and images of models, information about attachments, prices, warranty.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2700

Standard Company Name:	Fessenden and Company
Company Name on Item:	Fessenden and Company
Title:	Dr. Sapp's improved walking motion treadle for sewing machines.
Imprint:	[ca. 1872], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	8
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Testimonials about walking motion treadle for sewing machines.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 537

Standard Company Name:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Title:	[Advertisement from Harper's Monthly, August 1866] / Florence lock-stitch sewing machines.
Imprint:	1866, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Florence, MA
Descriptive Notes:	List of principal Florence Sewing Machine Company agencies.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 823

Standard Company Name:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Florence advocate; extra. / Low prices and cash sales.
Imprint:	1873, [S.l.], Florence Sewing Machine Company
Pages:	2
Notes:	Company address: Florence, MA Models represented: Back feed machine, ornamental machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Features pictures of machines with prices.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 845

Standard Company Name:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Florence Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Directions for using the Florence sewing machine.
Imprint:	1878, [S.l.], Gazette Printing Company
Pages:	16
Notes:	Company address: Florence, MA
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of Florence Sewing Machine Company plant on cover; instructions; line drawings demonstrating using attachments.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 822

Standard Company Name:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company
Title:	1500 shares. / Par value $100.
Imprint:	[Between 1885 and 1887], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Foxboro, MA
Descriptive Notes:	1,500 shares of stock, par value $100, in Foxboro Manufacturing Company; form is unused; (Foxboro was bought by Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine Company).
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 5
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 738

Standard Company Name:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company
Title:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company of Foxboro, Massachusetts.
Imprint:	1885, Boston, MA, Tolman and White, Printer
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Foxboro, MA
Descriptive Notes:	Foxboro Manufacturing Company history.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 5
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 742

Standard Company Name:	French Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	The French Manufacturing Company
Title:	Ladies all say that French's patent self supporting drop leaf table extension is the most useful attachment yet introduced for machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1869 and 1876], New York, NY, [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Drop leaf extension table.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 530

Standard Company Name:	Fuller & Barnum's
Company Name on Item:	Fuller and Barnum's
Title:	New tuck creaser and self sewer.
Imprint:	[Between 1867 and 1869], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Agent information: L.W. Barnum
Descriptive Notes:	Description of attachment for Fuller and Barnum sewing machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 544

Standard Company Name:	Fuller & Barnum's
Company Name on Item:	Fuller and Barnum's
Title:	New tuck creaser and self sewer.
Imprint:	[Between 1867 and 1869], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Agent information: L.W. Barnum
Descriptive Notes:	Description of attachment for Fuller and Barnum sewing machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 543

Standard Company Name:	H.B. Goodrich
Company Name on Item:	H.B. Goodrich
Title:	Reduced price list from H.B. Goodrich manufacturer of the Goodrich machine and dealer in all kinds of parts, attachments, oils, needles, etc.
Imprint:	[Between 1880 and 1885], Chicago, Dunn and Heggie
Pages:	11
Notes:	Models represented: Goodrich self-threading machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Price list for needles, attachments, oils; advertisements for catalogs and attachments.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2699

Standard Company Name:	H.B. Goodrich
Company Name on Item:	H.B. Goodrich
Title:	[Trade catalog for various models of various companies]
Imprint:	[Between 1880 and 1885], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	10
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Price and parts lists, advertising different catalogs and Goodrich machines. Cover is missing.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2687

Standard Company Name:	Greist Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Greist Manufacturing Co.
Title:	Greist Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of improved Singer sewing machines. / Greist Manufacturing Co. improved Singer.
Imprint:	[1879], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	16
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10.
Descriptive Notes:	Information about factory, models, agent recruitment, warranty, price list, images of models.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2704

Standard Company Name:	Greist Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	Greist Manufacturing Co.
Title:	Greist Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of improved Singer sewing machines. / Greist Manufacturing Co. improved Singer.
Imprint:	1879, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	25
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10.
Descriptive Notes:	Information about and images of Greist sewing machines, prices, agent recruitment, letter to agent about special discounts on extra sheet.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2710

Standard Company Name:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Grover and Baker's sewing machines.
Imprint:	[Between 1860 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Boston, MA Models represented: 1, 9, 23, 24, 25, 27.
Descriptive Notes:	Price list; pictures of each machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 859

Standard Company Name:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Seams of the leading sewing machines illustrated and compared.
Imprint:	[Between 1861 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Boston, MA Models represented: 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
Descriptive Notes:	Cloth with stitching samples included in piece.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 852

Standard Company Name:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Grover and Baker's improved lock-stitch sewing machine. / No. 9, simple, durable, light running, rapid, easily operated.
Imprint:	[Between 1869 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	2
Notes:	Company address: Boston, MA Model represented: 9.
Descriptive Notes:	Testimonials.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 858

Standard Company Name:	Grover and Baker Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Grover, Baker and Company
Title:	Patent sewing machine adapted to sewing leather and all kinds of cloth.
Imprint:	1853, [S.l.], Washington Clapp
Pages:	23
Notes:	Company address: Boston, MA Models represented: A, B, C, D, E, spooling machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Testimonials; price lists; description of Grover and Baker Company machine's unique features.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 851

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	The Howe sewing machine instructor.
Imprint:	[Between 1867 and 1886], [S.l.], Howe Machine Company
Pages:	32
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Model represented: New family.
Descriptive Notes:	Instructions for using Howe sewing machine and attachments.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 870

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	Instruction book for the new B machine. / Manufactured by the Howe Machine Company.
Imprint:	[Between 1867 and 1886], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	24
Notes:	Company address: Bridgeport, CT Model represented: B Machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Instructions for using the Howe B sewing machine and attachments.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 864

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	History of the sewing machine, by James Parton.
Imprint:	[ca. 1867], [S.l.], Inquirer Printing House and Bindery
Pages:	32
Notes:	Company address: Boston, MA Models represented: First sewing machine (invented by Elias Howe), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-A, 6-B, 7, 8, 9, 10, B, C.
Descriptive Notes:	Final pages have line drawings of machines. Originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly, May 1867.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 866

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	Instruction book for the Howe Sewing Machine Step Feed.
Imprint:	1867, New York, NY, Howe Machine Company
Pages:	20
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY
Descriptive Notes:	Detailed line drawings of parts; directions for use with detailed line drawings.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 863

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	Howe exhibition catalogue of sewing machine cases. / This beautiful catalogue .. expressly for the Centennial Exhibition.
Imprint:	1876, [S.l.], Corlies, Macy, and Company
Pages:	32
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY
Descriptive Notes:	Brief history of the sewing machine and its inventor, Elias Howe Jr. Line drawings of sewing machine tables and cases; cover picture features a statue of Howe with exposition buildings in the background; Worlds Fair.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 861

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	The Howe Machine Co. illustrated almanac for 1881.
Imprint:	1881, New York, NY, Howe Machine Company
Pages:	30
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Model represented: New B machine, D machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Almanac for 1881; contains trade catalog for the New B Machine, Howe Machine Company.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 867

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	The Howe Machine Co's illustrated almanac for 1882.
Imprint:	1882, New York, NY, Howe Machine Company
Pages:	34
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Model represented: Letter B machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Almanac for 1882; contains a trade catalog for the Letter B Machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 869

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	Howe Machine Company's illustrated alphabet machine poetry.
Imprint:	1883, [S.l.], J.B. Thomas, New York
Pages:	37
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Models represented: First sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Picture of the first sewing machine from 1845; poems about sewing machines corresponding with each letter of the alphabet; pictures of the Howe machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 862

Standard Company Name:	Howe Machine Co.
Company Name on Item:	Howe Machine Company
Title:	[Business card for Howe Sewing Machine agent, Augustus H. Tennis]
Imprint:	1894, New York, NY, [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: New York, NY Agent information: Augustus H. Tennis
Descriptive Notes:	Orange-colored business card.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 865

Standard Company Name:	Independent Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Independent Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Independent noiseless family sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1873 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	1
Notes:	Company address: Binghamton, NY Model represented: Family machine.
Descriptive Notes:	Flier for Independent Noiseless machine recruiting for agents suggests interested parties stop by the exhibition stand at the Franklin Institute.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 3
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 871

Standard Company Name:	Independent Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Independent Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Independent noiseless family sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1873 and 1876], [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Binghamton, NY Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Descriptive Notes:	Line drawings of No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 6; advertisements.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 1 : Folder 3
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 872

Standard Company Name:	Johnson, Flanders and Company
Company Name on Item:	Crescent Family Sewing Machine
Title:	Johnson, Flanders and Co., manufacturers of the Crescent sewing machine. / Johnson, Flanders and Co.'s new family sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1865 and 1883], [S.l.], Houston
Pages:	16
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Agent information: Crescent Sewing Machine Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Descriptive Notes:	Information about and images of models, prices.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2691

Standard Company Name:	June Manufacturing Company
Company Name on Item:	June Manufacturing Co.
Title:	June Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of the new and greatly improved Singer sewing machine.
Imprint:	1884, Chicago, P.L. Hanscom and Co.
Pages:	16
Notes:	Models represented: 3, 4, 7, 11.
Descriptive Notes:	Information about the models and the company, images of models, testimonials.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2694

Standard Company Name:	Konig and Company
Company Name on Item:	Konig und Co.
Title:	Price current of the Konig Singer sewing machine manufactory.
Imprint:	[Between 1865 and 1889], Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ph. Rohr
Pages:	16
Notes:	Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Descriptive Notes:	Information about and images of the models, guarantee certificate, blank price current.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2696

Standard Company Name:	Ladd, Webster, and Company
Company Name on Item:	Ladd, Webster, and Company
Title:	Ladd Webster and Company's improved tight stitch sewing machines.
Imprint:	1861, Philadelphia, E. Ketterlinus
Pages:	28
Notes:	Company address: Philadelphia Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, E machine
Descriptive Notes:	Testimonials; list of fairs at which company and machines won awards; drawings and prices of machines.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 714

Standard Company Name:	Landis Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Landis Machine Company
Title:	Landis Machine Company, manufacturers of the Landis wax thread lockstitch sewing machine. / For sewing leather in all its branches.
Imprint:	1893, St Louis, Missouri, Landis Machine Company
Pages:	43
Notes:	Company address: Saint Louis, MO Agent information: P.E. Nichols, 40 Fiske St., Waltham, Mass.
Descriptive Notes:	Drawing of machine; testimonials arranged by state; "Highest diploma and medal awarded at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893".
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 1
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 713

Standard Company Name:	C.M. Linington and Bro.
Company Name on Item:	C.M. Liningston and Bro.
Title:	Illustrated catalogue and jobbing price list from C.M. Livingston and Bro., Manufacturers and Importers of [s]ewing machine and hand needles.
Imprint:	1874, [S.l.], Ezra A. Cook and Co.
Pages:	24
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Information about and images of attachments, price lists, address "To the trade".
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2689

Standard Company Name:	Marshall and Company
Company Name on Item:	Marshall and Co.
Title:	Price list of Marshall and Co.'s patent linen threads.
Imprint:	1878, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Agent information: George A. Clark and Brother, New York
Descriptive Notes:	Price list of threads, information about awards won by the products.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 18 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 2693

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	Catalogue, the Merrow Machine Company. / Manufacturers of high speed overedge overseaming and shell stitch machines.
Imprint:	1906, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	48
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 15 plain crochet machine, blanket hemming and edging machine, scallop or shell stitch machine, 40, 50 three thread edge finishing machine, 60 high speed trimming and overseaming, 60S, 60K, 60U, cutter grinder.
Descriptive Notes:	Pictures of work done by various machines. View of machines in a factory setting.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 718

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	Instructions for setting up and operating the Merrow high speed trimming and overseaming sewing machines. / Class 60.
Imprint:	1922, Hartford, CT, Merrow Machine Company
Pages:	50
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Model represented: 60 class.
Descriptive Notes:	Instructions, diagrams, images of machines in use.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 766

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	Catalogue of the Merrow Machine Company. / High speed trimming and overseaming, overedging, and shell stitch machines.
Imprint:	1926, Hartford, CT, Merrow Machine Company
Pages:	72
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 15F, 18A, 22F, 35FJ, 35FJT, 60D, 60AD, 60BD, 60AB, 60B, 60ED, 60JD, 60Q, 60S, 60ABW, 60SS, 60UD, 60U.
Descriptive Notes:	Company history of Merrow Machine Company; pictures of machines in use in factory.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 767

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[Three stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 60U, 60UB, 60Q, 60ABB, 60F.
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines; cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 764

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[One stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	4
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 765

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[Three stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 35FJ, 35F, 60HD, hoD, 15F, 17F, 60BE, 60E, 18, 18A, 27F, 60B, 60AD.
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines; cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 762

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[Three stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 60F, 60BW, 60AB, 35FJ, 35F, 60U, 60W.
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines; cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 763

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[Three stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 60Q, 60UD, 60S, 60HD, 60WD.
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines; cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 760

Standard Company Name:	Merrow Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Merrow Machine Company
Title:	[Three stitch samples]
Imprint:	1927, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	12
Notes:	Company address: Hartford, CT Models represented: 60WD, 60HD, 60UD, 35F, 35FJ.
Descriptive Notes:	Actual examples of sample stitches made using Merrow Machine Company machines; cover features picture of machine.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 757

Standard Company Name:	Metropolitan Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	Metropolitan Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Instruction book of care, operation, and adjustment of the various machines. / Manufactured by the Metropolitan Sewing Machine Company.
Imprint:	1910, New York, NY, Press of Robert L. Stillson Company
Pages:	100
Notes:	Company address: Nyack, NY Agent information: Lucius N. Littauer; Nyack, New York
Descriptive Notes:	Illustrated price list; instructions for various Metropolitan Sewing Machine Company machines; machine parts.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 2 : Folder 2
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 719

Standard Company Name:	James Morrison and Company
Company Name on Item:	James Morrison and Company
Title:	Patent sewing machine fan. / Work and comfort combined.
Imprint:	1870, [S.l.], [s.n.]
Pages:	3
Notes:
Descriptive Notes:	Fan attachment, used with machine. Fan operated by machine's power.
Physical Location:	NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 5 : Folder 0
Item Image Available:	Display Scanned Item: 532

Standard Company Name:	National Sewing Machine Company
Company Name on Item:	National Sewing Machine Company
Title:	Western Electric: No 2. / Portable sewing machine.
Imprint:	[Between 1890 and 1929], [S.l.], [s.n.]