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Standard Company Name: Tracy Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Tracy Sewing Machine
Title: The Tracy gravity safety elevator with automatic platforms.
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 2
Notes: Format: Fliers
Model represented: Tracy Gravity Safety Elevator with automatic platforms.
Descriptive Notes: This front page has nothing to do with sewing machines; reverse side, the inventions of Mrs. Tracy, is glorified in the description of all her inventions, one of them being the invention of a rotary shuttle lock and chain stitch sewing machine.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4890

Standard Company Name: Tracy Sewing Machine Company
Company Name: Tracy Sewing Machine Co.
Title: The Tracy lock-stitch and chain stitch sewing machine trade catalog.
Imprint: 19th cent.
Pages: 4
Notes: Format: Trade catalogs
Model represented: Tracy-lock stitch and chain stitch sewing machine.
Descriptive Notes: Words of praise for this new type of machine, the first of its kind having lock stitch and chain stitch with a rotary shuttle.
Smithsonian Location: NMAH. Archives Center. Warshaw. Box: 5 ; Folder 2 (about locations)
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Record Number: 4891

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