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Wheeler & Wilson’s Manufacturing Co

Description: Image of an aerial view of the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine factory showing a locomotive in the foreground and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1860-1880
Call number: priJLC_HHD_000651
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

The Howe Machine Co’s factory, Bridgeport, Ct

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Image of an eye-level view of the Howe Machine Company's sewing machine factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from across the water showing a sailboat and an Elias Howe Jr. steamboat ferry, horse-drawn carriages, and an American flag in foreground; coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr. pictured at bottom center.

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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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Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Company factory complex in the borough of Mount Joy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with the main building labeled "Mount Joy Car Manufactory," smokestacks, laborers, a railroad train in the left background, and pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the street in the foreground.

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Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine Co. Biddeford-Maine-U.S

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Image of an advertisement for Shaw & Clark Sewing Machine Company of Biddeford, Maine; columns flank center images of a family gathered together at home while the mother sews at a machine and Shaw & Clark factory buildings; four images of sewing machine components and tables including self sewer, baster, and hemmers at left and right; elaborate floral border.

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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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Outside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. factory complex along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an elevation view of the side of a passenger steam locomotive on railroad tracks in the foreground, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer visible in the cab, a tender holding wood with a man standing in the tank, and a label between the driving wheels that reads "Amoskeag Mang. Co. Manchester N.H. / C.W. Baldwin Agent / 1856."

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Wheeler & Wilson’s Manufacturing Co

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