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 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.