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The Wilson shuttle sewing machine

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Description: Image of a four-fold leaflet advertising the Wilson Sewing Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois; Wilson Shuttle sewing machines with descriptions and prices, bust length portrait of company president W. G. Wilson, and medals awarded to Wilson Sewing Machine Co. on recto; advertising text and trademark seal on verso.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1872-1877
Call number: priJLC_HHD_002501
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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White shuttle sewing machines the best in the world

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Image of an advertisement for shuttle sewing machines by White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and sold by Levi Bange of Valley Junction, Pennsylvania; columns listing the benefits of White Shuttle machines flank a center image of a woman at home sewing at a machine below draped American flags and a bald eagle; White Shuttle factory building at bottom center flanked by images of women in robes representing industry and knowledge with sewing machines at left and right.

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Hall's celebrated double thread lock stitch sewing machine

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Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising Hall's celebrated double thread lock stitch sewing machine; image of the sewing machine with advertising text and testimonials on recto; description and press excerpts on verso.

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Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines

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Image of an advertisement for sewing machines manufactured by Wheeler & Wilson; center image of Wheeler & Wilson's New York City buildings surrounded by eight vignettes featuring six sewing machine models and two women, one sewing by hand by candlelight and one comfortably sewing with a machine.

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The Howe sewing machine

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Image of an advertisement for sewing machines made by the Howe Machine Company of Boston, Massachusetts and sold by agent C.W. Knapp; center image of the Howe Machine Co. building and storefront with four models of sewing machines pictured in the corners, including the "original" and "cylinder" options; coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr. pictured above building at center.

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American B.H.O. & Sewing Machine Co

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Image of an advertisement for sewing machine model number 7 manufactured by the American Button Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; seven styles of sewing machines with prices and descriptions; decorative floral border with roses, a waterfall, sailboat along a shoreline, eagle, horse-drawn cart on a lane, and train locomotive coming around a bend on a railroad.

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Office of David C. Cook, wholesale dealer in needles, oils and attachments

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Image of a two-fold leaflet advertising for David C. Cook of Chicago, Illinois, a dealer of sewing machine needles, oil, and parts; price lists, terms, and descriptions of offers in item text.

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