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Singer Sewing Machine Florentine Italy Costumes All Nations Trade Card 1892
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Pioneer · 1892

Singer Sewing Machine Florentine Italy Costumes All Nations Trade Card 1892

Florence (Firenze), Italy1892PioneerGood

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 depicts a young Florentine woman in regional costume — pink skirt, dark bodice, and broad-brimmed straw hat decorated with flowers — seated at a Singer treadle sewing machine, working on an embroidered floral textile. Labeled "Florentine — Italy." The reverse carries descriptive text about Florence as a city of Tuscany on the river Arno, noting Singer's success in the city.

  • Caption: Florentine "Italy."
  • 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
$12.95
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PC-03732 · The Singer Manufacturing Co. / J. Ottmann Lith. Co.
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