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- Catherine Prindle's Sewing Workbook, Armour Institute, 1901 -
- 1901
- Collections - Artifact
Catherine Prindle's Sewing Workbook, Armour Institute, 1901
- Western Electric No. 2 Portable Sewing Machine, circa 1920 -
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Western Electric No. 2 Portable Sewing Machine, circa 1920
- Singer Portable Sewing Machine, 1860 -
- 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Singer Portable Sewing Machine, 1860
- Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine, Purchased by Rufus Reed of Newark, New York, 1857 - Seamstresses used this sewing machine to sew cotton cloth (a Southern agricultural commodity woven in Northern factories). The cast-iron mechanism in a rosewood case confirms connections between Amazonian forests and New England factories. Patented in 1856, this portable machine hit the American market while the fate of slavery divided the nation. Advertising in the American Farmer (1860) described it “for farm and plantation use,” implying that enslaved and free seamstresses may have used it.
- 1857
- Collections - Artifact
Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine, Purchased by Rufus Reed of Newark, New York, 1857
Seamstresses used this sewing machine to sew cotton cloth (a Southern agricultural commodity woven in Northern factories). The cast-iron mechanism in a rosewood case confirms connections between Amazonian forests and New England factories. Patented in 1856, this portable machine hit the American market while the fate of slavery divided the nation. Advertising in the American Farmer (1860) described it “for farm and plantation use,” implying that enslaved and free seamstresses may have used it.
- Howe Sewing Machine, circa 1863 -
- circa 1863
- Collections - Artifact
Howe Sewing Machine, circa 1863
- Sewing Box, 1850-1875 -
- 1850-1875
- Collections - Artifact
Sewing Box, 1850-1875
- Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine, Purchased by Judge Nathan Crosby of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1858 - Seamstresses used this sewing machine to sew cotton cloth (a Southern agricultural commodity woven in Northern factories). The cast-iron mechanism in a rosewood case confirms connections between Amazonian forests and New England factories. Patented in 1856, this portable machine hit the American market while the fate of slavery divided the nation. Advertising in the American Farmer (1860) described it “for farm and plantation use,” implying that enslaved and free seamstresses may have used it.
- 1858
- Collections - Artifact
Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine, Purchased by Judge Nathan Crosby of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1858
Seamstresses used this sewing machine to sew cotton cloth (a Southern agricultural commodity woven in Northern factories). The cast-iron mechanism in a rosewood case confirms connections between Amazonian forests and New England factories. Patented in 1856, this portable machine hit the American market while the fate of slavery divided the nation. Advertising in the American Farmer (1860) described it “for farm and plantation use,” implying that enslaved and free seamstresses may have used it.
- Pincushion Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama -
- 1960-1969
- Collections - Artifact
Pincushion Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
- Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, circa 1878 -
- circa 1878
- Collections - Artifact
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, circa 1878
- Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine, 1864-1870 -
- 1864-1870
- Collections - Artifact
Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine, 1864-1870