Antique & Vintage Postcards

Color lithograph advertising trade card from the Singer Manufacturing Company's 1892 "Costumes of All Nations" series, depicting Italy (Ancona). A woman in Anconese regional dress — red and black embroidered vest, white blouse, colorful beaded necklace and earrings — sits at a Singer treadle sewing machine, one hand resting on the wheel. A small child in a red dress sits on the floor at lower left, looking up. The reverse carries a printed geographical description of Ancona.