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Title: Grover & Baker's sewing machines
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
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.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company history; William Grover of Grover & Baker was awarded his first patent in 1849, and the business merged with The Domestic Sewing Machine Co. in 1875. "New Improved Lock Stitch."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : color printed ; overall 72.55 x 56.83 cm (28 9/16 x 22 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_HHD_002508
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4814
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--House furnishings
Sewing--Pictorial works
Sewing machines--Pictorial works
Sewing-machine industry
Women--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Household
Large Size
Tools and Appliances
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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