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Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: 1895; the Standard Sewing Machine Company. / Catalogue of Standard sewing machines for steam and foot power.
Imprint: 1895
Pages: 58
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: B, D, ruffling, zig-zag, twin needle, cylinder, bar tacking, button, chain stitch.
Descriptive Notes: Description of each machine and its main features. Includes machines for manufacturing and domestic use.
Smithsonian Location: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Box: Standard ; Folder 0 (about locations)
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Record Number: 14

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl with blonde hair, wearing a lace-trimmed hat, sitting surrounded by pink roses]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl with blonde hair, wearing a lace-trimmed hat, sitting surrounded by pink roses.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1291

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Order form for a Standard Sewing Machine Company sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Order form for a Standard Sewing Machine Company sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1292

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Stitch in the side.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 15
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Description of the design of a Standard sewing machine, with the head in the center of the machine, which puts less strain on the users back because less stretching is required.
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Record Number: 1299

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl in a ruffled blue dress, wearing a hat with flowers, and playing croquet]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl in a ruffled blue dress, wearing a hat with flowers, and playing croquet.
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Record Number: 1293

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, holding a bunch of daisies and riding on the back of a bird, which is about to catch a bug in its mouth]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing a young girl, holding a bunch of daisies and riding on the back of a bird. The bird is about to catch a bug in its mouth.
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Record Number: 1294

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl wearing a green dress with a burgundy sash, and riding on a bird]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl, wearing a green dress with a burgundy sash, riding on a bird.
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Record Number: 1295

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl in a colorful apron and hat, carrying a basket of flowers and a pair of scissors]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing a young girl in a colorful apron and hat, carrying a basket of flowers and a pair of scissors.
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Record Number: 1296

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl with blond hair wearing a large flower-patterned hat, standing on the beach and dipping her toes into the ocean]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl with blond hair wearing a large flower-patterned hat, standing on the beach and dipping her toes into the ocean.
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Record Number: 1297

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a child and three dogs. The child is reading a sign lying flat on the grass, which says" Keep off the Grass and Buy a Standard Sewing Machine"] / Nature's kindergarten.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a child and three dogs. The child is reading a sign lying flat on the grass, which says "Keep off the Grass and Buy a Standard Sewing Machine".
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Record Number: 1298

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl wearing a green dress with a burgundy sash, and riding on a bird]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl, wearing a green dress with a burgundy sash, riding on a bird.
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Record Number: 1300

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a brown dress with a pink sash, gloves, and boots]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a brown dress with a pink sash, gloves, and boots.
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Record Number: 1322

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring four cats carrying holly and an American flag]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring four cats carrying holly and an American flag.
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Record Number: 1323

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two birds under an umbrella]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two birds under an umbrella.
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Record Number: 1324

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring two cats fishing among water lilies]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring two cats fishing among water lilies.
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Record Number: 1325

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl's face reflected in a mirror]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a girl's face reflected in a mirror.
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Record Number: 1329

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a straw hat, a beige dress and pink ribbons; she is holding a basket of flowers]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a straw hat, a beige dress and pink ribbons. She is holding a basket of flowers.
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Record Number: 1327

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman wearing a green coat and a tan cat, holding a snowball during a snowstorm]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a woman wearing a green coat and a tan cat, holding a snowball during a snowstorm.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 3 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1331

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with black hair pulled back with a chiffon scarf and a decorative comb, holding a small bouquet of flowers]
Imprint: 1900
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing young woman with black hair pulled back with a chiffon scarf and a decorative comb holding a small bouquet of flowers.
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Record Number: 1328

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring 9 pansies playing -- riding a see-saw, jumping and running] / Highest price lockstitch machine made but the cheapest because it is the best.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring 9 pansies playing -- riding a see-saw, jumping and running
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Record Number: 1330

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, wearing a white cap and dress, and boy, wearing a blue jacket, talking by a railing and a fern plant]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, wearing a white cap and dress, and boy, wearing a blue jacket, talking by a railing and a fern plant.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1332

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a winter scene of a person walking in the snow among large buildings]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a winter scene of a person walking in the snow among large buildings.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1333

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Standard rotary. / Sit straight sewing machines.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Features sewing project ideas; image of a woman at a machine with a baby playing nearby.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1506

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Central needle, sit straight.
Imprint: 1912
Pages: 6
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Descriptions of machines; mentions benefits machines offer for posture.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1505

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on a "Rotary Shuttle" bicycle carrying a sewing machine] / "The standard."
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on a "Rotary Shuttle" bicycle carrying a sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1508

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Standard rotary. / Sit straight sewing machines.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 20
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 131: Cabinet, 99: Central needle, sit straight, 98R: New sit straight-standard rotary, 96R: New sit straight-standard rotary, 94 1/2R: New sit straight-standard rotary.
Descriptive Notes: Features sewing project ideas; image of a woman at a machine with a baby playing nearby.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1502

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Standard of conquest.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 6
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 2, 4, standard grand, 10, 10A.
Descriptive Notes: Image of Columbus, Isabelle and Ferdinand with a sewing machine model on Isabelle's crown and a deck of cards on Ferdinand's crown; includes verse about the virtues of sewing machines and sewing.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1503

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Central needle, sit straight.
Imprint: 1912
Pages: 6
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 99R, 99V, 98R: w/ standard rotary head, 98V: w/ vibrator head, 96R, 96V, 94P: w/ paragon head, 92C: w/ cleveland head, 92N: w/ norwood head, 131R, 131V, 124R: tailor machine, 111W: w/ wizard head, 111A: w/ arrow head.
Descriptive Notes: Descriptions of machines; mentions benefits machines offer for posture.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1504

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: Standard of conquest.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 6
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Image of Columbus, Isabella and Ferdinand with a sewing machine model on Isabella's crown and a deck of cards on Ferdinand's crown; includes verse about the virtues of sewing machines and sewing.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1507

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on "Rotary Shuttle" bicycle carrying a sewing machine] / Bike rider is saying "2500 turns in a minute - clear the track.
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a man on "Rotary Shuttle" bicycle carrying a sewing machine. Bike rider is saying "2500 turns in a minute - clear the track".
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Record Number: 1509

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring five children standing along a fence, dangling a shoe and a teapot from a string into the a lake]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring five children standing along a fence dangling a shoe and a teapot from a string into the a lake.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1510

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a parade with men in uniforms from the American revolutionary war era, the war of 1812, and the Spanish-American war]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a parade with men in American revolutionary war era, War 1812, and Spanish-American uniforms. Also features a drummer boy, a flute player, and the American flag.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1511

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young woman with black hair pulled back with a chiffon scarf and a decorative comb, holding a small bouquet of flowers]
Imprint: 1900
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing young woman with black hair pulled back with a chiffon scarf and a decorative comb holding a small bouquet of flowers.
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Record Number: 1587

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three women and a child looking at a bicycle with wheels shaped like a sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a bicycle with wheels shaped like a sewing machine.
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Record Number: 1794

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring three women and a child looking at a bicycle with wheels shaped like a sewing machine]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring three women and a child watching a bicycle with wheels shaped like a sewing machine.
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Record Number: 1795

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring five children standing along a fence, dangling a shoe and a teapot from a string into the a lake]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring five children standing along a fence dangling a shoe and a teapot from a string into the a lake.
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Record Number: 1796

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl holding her skirt above her ankles as she walks through a body of water]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl holding her skirt above her ankles as she walks through a body of water.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1798

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl, with blond hair, holding a kitten and sitting in an overturned basket ]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl, with blond hair, holding a kitten and sitting in an overturned basket.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1799

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl wearing a plumed bonnet and long gloves, holding a blue flower, and peering into a hole in a torn sheet of paper]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card showing a young girl wearing a plumed bonnet and long gloves, holding a blue flower, and peering into a hole in a torn sheet of paper.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1797

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young boy out fishing with a dog at his side]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young boy out fishing with a dog at his side.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1800

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Title: [Trade card featuring a young girl with blond hair, catching butterflies with her butterfly net]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring a young girl with blond hair, catching butterflies with her butterfly net.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 1801

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: The Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a woman teaching a girl how to sew with a Standard machine]
Imprint: [between 1884 and 1899]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring woman teaching girl how to sew on a Standard machine. Advertisement for the Standard rotary shuttle machine on back.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 25 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
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Record Number: 3227

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a small girl with a flower hat]
Imprint: [Between 1870 and 1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card featuring small girl with flower hat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Textiles Collection. Box: 26 ; Folder 0 (about locations)
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Record Number: 3328

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Booklet: Standard Sewing Machine home evidence]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 15
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Sewing machine circular describing the virtues of this sewing machine through testimonials of satisfied customers; sewing machines are shown but models are not described or noted.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4311

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Catalogue of Norwood sewing machines.
Imprint: [1904]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: Norwood styles 2 and 3.
Descriptive Notes: Catalogue of Norwood sewing machines.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 2 ; Folder 24 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4387

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The new Howe improved central needle sewing machine.
Imprint: [1911]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: Howe improved style 14-NA and 14-NH.
Descriptive Notes: Trade catalog for the new Howe improved central needle sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 2 ; Folder 24 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4389

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The Standard rotary sewing machine.
Imprint: [19--?]
Pages: 6
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: Standard styles 8 and 14.
Descriptive Notes: The Standard sewing machine catalog featuring styles 8 and 14.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 2 ; Folder 24 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4403

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Catalog of Paragon sewing machines.
Imprint: [19--?]
Pages: 8
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: Paragon styles 2, 3, and 4.
Descriptive Notes: Standard Sewing Machine catalog for the Paragon sewing machine, featuring styles 2, 3, and 4.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 2 ; Folder 24 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4404

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Order blank.
Imprint: 1911
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Order blank for Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4436

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The nation's pride: published by the Standard Sewing Machine Co. in the interest of the trade. Vol. 7, no. 2.
Imprint: [1899]
Pages: 10
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Nation's pride: published by the Standard Sewing Co. in the interest of the trade. Vol. 7, no. 2.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4428

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Paragon new "Standard" sit straight style 93-P complete set nickeled attachments.
Imprint: [1900?]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Fliers
Model represented: 93-P.
Descriptive Notes: Paragon new "Standard" sit straight style 93-P complete set nickled attachments.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4429

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: "Norwood" sewing machine style 14-A, closed, a decidedly attractive design.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Fliers
Model represented: Norwood sewing machine style 14-A.
Descriptive Notes: "Norwood" sewing machine style 14-A, closed, a decidedly attractive design. Form 1360.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4430

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Letter from the Standard Sewing Machine Co. address a circular mailing]
Imprint: [1899]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Letter from the Standard Sewing Machine Co. address a circular mailing.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4431

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The "Standard" Sewing Machine Co.'s prospectus for 1899.
Imprint: 1899
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: The "Standard" Sewing Machine Co.'s prospectus for 1899.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4432

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The "Standard" Sewing Machine Co.'s prospectus for 1899.
Imprint: 1899
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: The "Standard" Sewing Machine Co.'s prospectus for 1899.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4434

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Catalogue of favorite sewing machines.
Imprint: [1900?]
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Fliers
Model represented: 3.
Descriptive Notes: Catalog of favorite sewing machines; form 1267.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4435

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The Nation's pride: published by the Standard Sewing Machine Company in the interest of the trade. Vol. 1, no. 12.
Imprint: [1893]
Pages: 8
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: The Nation's pride : published by the Standard Sewing Machine Company in the interest of the trade. Vol. 1, no. 12.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4433

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The "Standard" rotary shuttle electric.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Fliers
Model represented: Standard rotary shuttle electric.
Descriptive Notes: The "Standard" rotary shuttle electric.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4437

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: F.C. Henderson, Manager, the Standard Sewing Machine Co., Care Shepard Norwell Co.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Envelope from F.C. Henderson, Manager, the Standard Sewing Machine Co., Care Shepard Norwell Co.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4438

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Letter advertising the need for agents]
Imprint: [1900]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Letter advertising the need for agents.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4439

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Mfg.
Title: The Standard rotary shuttle descriptive price list.
Imprint: 1893
Pages: 12
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 10A.
Descriptive Notes: The Standard rotary shuttle descriptive price list.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 5 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4445

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Letter to Geo. W. Smith of Mattawamkeag, Maine concerning 30 day free trial of machine]
Imprint: 1912
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Models represented: 98R, 94P, 106N.
Descriptive Notes: Letter to Geo. W. Smith of Mattawamkeag, Maine concerning 30 day free trial of machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4440

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Letter to George W. Smith]
Imprint: 1912
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Letter to George W. Smith.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4441

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The Standard Sewing Machine Co.'s prospectus for 1900.
Imprint: 1900
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Fliers
Descriptive Notes: Prospectus from the Standard Sewing Machine company,
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4442

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Twenty-five reasons for buying a Standard rotary shuttle sewing machine.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Fliers
Descriptive Notes: Twenty-five reasons for buying a Standard rotary shuttle sewing machine. Form 1139.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4443

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Twenty-five reasons for buying a Standard rotary shuttle sewing machine.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 1
Notes: Format: Fliers
Descriptive Notes: Twenty-five reasons for buying a Standard rotary shuttle sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 4 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4444

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Mfg.
Title: The Standard rotary shuttle descriptive price list.
Imprint: 1893
Pages: 12
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Models represented: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 10A.
Descriptive Notes: The Standard rotary shuttle descriptive price list.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 5 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4446

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: Caller interrupts her morning recreation. / Hygienic Standard central needle sewing machine catalog.
Imprint: [n.d.]
Pages: 26
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Catalog for dealers use only. Hygienic standard central needle sewing machine catalog.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 6 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4447

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring white and pink blossoms]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Trade card with lake scene and floral display; name of sewing machine at bottom.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4491

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Booklet: the nations pride, standard rotary shuttle sewing machine]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 14
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Descriptive Notes: Trade catalog with all sorts of information, stories; describing sewing machine parts, some jokes, etc.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4874

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a blue floral display with a lakeside scene and a sailboat in the distance]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Complimentary trade card with company name; blue flowers and lakeside scene with sailboat.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4877

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a girl with a yellow and red dress and white cap; carries tray of grapes or berries]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Complimentary trade card with picture of young girl carrying a tray of grapes or berries; she wears and yellow and red dress with a white apron.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4879

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Booklet: Standard Sewing Machine home evidence]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 15
Notes: Format: Company materials
Descriptive Notes: Sewing machine circular describing the virtues of this sewing machine through testimonials of satisfied customers; sewing machines are shown but models are not described or noted.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4876

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a rotary shuttle in upper left hand corner]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Plain business card with blue gray background to the company name; verso list their different machines and what they can do.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4881

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a comic trade card showing dogs sitting up with each wearing a top hat with white gloves placed along side each one]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: An amusing picture of 3 dogs with top hats and gloves; dogs sitting upright in begging position.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4880

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring a young man in a blue sailor type suit tipping hat, holding envelope]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Young man in blue sailor type suit tips his hat and holds an envelope out in front as if to deliver a message.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4882

Standard Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Title: [Trade card featuring the Standard rotary shuttle, which forms a frame for a picture of a blond girl]
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Trade cards
Descriptive Notes: Complimentary trade card with picture of young blond haired in shuttle; gives advertisement and selling points of machine, lock stitch, and chain stitch and its noiseless, rapid, simple and durable.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 4 ; Folder 3 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4883

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