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Franz & Pope, Knitting Machine Co

Description: Image of an advertisement for Franz & Pope Knitting Machine Company of Bucyrus, Ohio; various knit goods including socks and hosiery, gloves, mittens, shirts, drawers, tops, jackets, capes, scarves, and headwear pictured around central image of a knitting machine.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1867-1880
Call number: priJLC_HHD_004354
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.

Aiken Knitting Machine Co

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Image of an advertisement for knitting machines manufactured by Aiken Knitting Machine Company; machines for winding, plain and hosiery knitting, heeling and footing pictured with prices and descriptive text; decorative scrollwork border.

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The Howe Machine Co.'s sewing machine manufactory, Bridgeport, Conn

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Image of four eye-level views of Howe Machine Company sewing machine factories surrounded by busy streets, ferries, and carriages; coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr. at center left.

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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 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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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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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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