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. Date approximated by cataloger based on company history; the No. 7 sewing machine was introduced by American B.H.O. & Sewing Machine Co. in the 1880s, and the company was out of business by approximately 1898. Sewing machine images are engravings, border images are lithographs. "Ketterlinus Phila."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 30.8 x 34.61 cm (12 1/8 x 13 5/8 in.)
Advertising--House furnishings Flowers--Pictorial works Sewing machines--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Intaglio prints--1875-1900. (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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