Details
Contributor Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., printer.
Title Sewing Machine Polka [graphic] / Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., lith. Cincinnati.
Publisher Cincinnati: Published by J. Church Jr., no. 66 West Fourth St.; Philadelphia: Lee & Walker; New York ... [and three other cities]: Firth, Pond & Co
Date c1860
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 34 x 27 cm.(13.25 x 10.5 in.)
Description Sheet music cover showing four well-dressed women in a finely-decorated parlor with a sewing machine. Two women, with a cat and sheet of paper at their feet, work at the machine in the center of the room. Near them another woman stands and observes as another woman across the room sews by hand while seated on a chair. In the background, skyline at dusk is visible through a large window with drawn-back drapery.
Notes Printed on recto: 5.
Inscribed lower left corner: 51.
See also proof before letters and color [P.9349.56b].
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Sewing machines.
Sewing.
Women.
Parlors.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music covers -- 1850-1860.
Printer: Church, John, 1834-1890, publisher.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
Firth, Pond & Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.36a]