A small child looks up from the floor as her mother works a Singer treadle machine in embroidered Anconese dress in this 1892 trade card — the reverse claims the Singer machine "plays its part... as it does in thousands of other Ancona homes," typical of the confident marketing copy running across all 36 cards in the series.

• Caption: Italy (Ancona)
• Publisher: The Singer Manufacturing Co. — Copyright 1892
• Status: Unposted