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Singer Cabinet Table
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"The Reader," an illustration of a woman reading while seated at a lace-covered sewing machine cabinet. The illustration was part of "The Universal Sewing Machine," a brochure issued by the Singer Sewing Machine Company for the Pan-American Exposition of 1901.
1900
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W0144A0
WHi 68216
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Singer Advertising Card - Italian Woman
1892
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Singer Advertising Card - Neapolitan Woman
1892
Chromolithograph card of an Italian woman in "native" Neapolitan costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of All Nations," set created as a souvenir at the 1893 World's ...
