Antique & Vintage Postcards

Chromolithograph advertising trade card from the Singer Manufacturing Company's "Costumes of All Nations" series, copyright 1892, printed by J. Ottmann Lith. Co. The front shows a Hungarian country tailor seated at a Singer treadle sewing machine, embroidering an elaborate peasant state dress displayed on a mannequin beside him — the garment richly decorated with red, green, and blue embroidery typical of Magyar folk costume. Labeled "Hungary. Austria-Hungary." The reverse carries descriptive text about Hungary as a Central European country of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, noting the Singer Company's 28 offices there.