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Grover & Baker's sewing machines

Description: Image of an advertisement for sewing machines manufactured by Grover & Baker of Boston, Massachusetts; woman seated in a tufted chair sewing with a machine.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1849-1875
Call number: priJLC_HHD_002508
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.

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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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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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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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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The Wilson shuttle sewing machine

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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.

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Please examine the weed family favorite sewing machine

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Image of an advertisement for The Weed Family Favorite sewing machine with image of a family at home; the husband reads a newspaper while the wife sews on a machine and the daughter looks on over the edge of the sewing machine table.

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