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[American Sewing Machine Company trade cards] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A106844
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Contributor
J.H. Bufford & Co., printer.
Title
[American Sewing Machine Company trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1885
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
3 prints : chromolithographs ; 11 x 7.5 cm. (4.25 x 3 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for the American Sewing Machine Company. Illustrations depict a Style B, No. 7 sewing machine; a little girl bundled in winter clothing picking berries in the snow; a profile portrait superimposed over white flowers of a girl wearing a hat; and juxtaposed domestic scenes. Domestic scene images include a central view showing a mother seated at her American sewing machine, surrounded by her three children. A smaller inset view, labeled "Ye Olden Time," shows a mother hand sewing or stitching with her children gathered around her. The American Sewing Machine Company operated a factory at the southwest corner of Twentieth and Washington Streets (erected 1865) and a sales office at 1318 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers include J.H. Bufford & Co.
Item P.9728.14 compliments of C.H. Randall, Warner's Block, - Newton.
All three of the prints contain advertising text printed on the recto and/or verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Randall, C.H.
American Sewing Machine Company.
Sewing machine industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sewing machines.
Sewing.
Women.
Children.
Winter.
Flowers.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - American Sewing [1975.F.10; 1975.F.16; P.9728.14]
Accession number
1975.F.10
1975.F.16
P.9728.14
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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