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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

A young Florentine woman in a flower-trimmed straw hat works embroidered fabric through a Singer machine in this 1892 trade card, the reverse praising Florence as "this city of palaces" where "the Singer Machine has won its way to the hearts of the people." One of four Italy cards in Singer's 36-card set.

  • 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
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PC-03732 · The Singer Manufacturing Co. / J. Ottmann Lith. Co.
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