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3810-536409
Portrait of a young woman using a sewing machine, Singer Sewing Machine
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1746-1940
Factories of the Singer Sewing Machine company. Top left. Cabinet works at Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Centre top. Factory at Glasgow, Scotland. Top right. Factory at South Bend, Indiana, USA. Bottom. Factory at Elizabethport, New Jersey, USA. From Great Industries of Great Britain (London, c1880). Engraving.
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1746-379
Isaac Merrit Singer (1811-75), American inventor, while his friend George Zieber holds the candle, adjusting tension on his sewing machine in a last desperate attempt to make it work (August/September 1850). Machine patented 185.
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1566-389204
Old footpowered sewing machine in the window of a seamstress shop in Rockport, Maine
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