Details
Contributor Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher New York : Major & Knapp Company, 56 Park Place
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 11.5 cm. (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting alternate views of family life with and without a Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine. One print, entitled "Willcox & Gibbs new automatic. A home blessing", shows a mother using Willcox & Gibbs "new automatic" sewing machine and observing her content family relaxing in their parlor. The other print, entitled "Noisy, hard running, double thread. A distressing nuisance", shows the same mother using a different sewing machine and observing chaos in her home as her husband opens the door to flee the scene, two girls fight over their toys, an infant wails in a bassinet, and the dog and cat fight.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes Willcox & Gibbs "new automatic" sewing machine as the perfect, "no tension" machine and the cheapest in the world.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co.
Sewing machine industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Domestic life.
Families.
Sewing machines.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Willcox [1975.F.903 & 904]
Accession number 1975.F.903
1975.F.904