A Hungarian country tailor embroiders an elaborate Magyar peasant dress displayed on a mannequin beside his Singer treadle machine in this 1892 trade card, the reverse noting Singer's 28 offices across the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Coming just 14 years before the 1908 annexation crisis, it's a small snapshot of Hungary's dual Ottoman-Habsburg cultural inheritance.

• Caption: Hungary. Austria-Hungary.
• Publisher: The Singer Manufacturing Co., copyright 1892; printed by J. Ottmann Lith. Co.
• Series: Costumes of All Nations — distributed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
• Status: Unposted