The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 13 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Card added to Arnold Collection. Please let me know if you can decipher the printer's mark in the lower right corner. Thanks! As can be seen below, there were sometimes distractions that made "working from home" more interesting in the 19th century... Providence Tool Co. advertising agents were fond of large eggs. Here's another: The Household Sewing Machine Youtube, Farmboy00000 The Household Sewing machine, as can be seen from the trade card above, was made by the Providence Tool Co. Now things get a bit complicated. For three years, but only three as far as I can see, they also made the Domestic Sewing Machine under contract with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, as per this Google Books reference : Title Before the Featherweight - Sewhandy Volume 1 History Volume 1 of Before the Featherweight - Sewhandy, ...

updated 23 September 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Ever done this?! I wonder if the Arnold children ever got any inspirations along these lines... Must be an inherited trait! The New Home Sewing Machine Company originated in Orange, MA For a trip through the convoluted history of the Company, see The International Sewing Machine Collectors Society site . New Home sewing machine found at yard sale for $10 by Sockmachinelady (YouTube) The card above is a recent addition to the Arnold Collection. Orange MA was the original home of the New Home Sewing Machine Co. Putnam's meadow may well have been bisected by Putnam St., as shown on the Google Maps view below: North Lake was not found on a recent map. Its location is unknown. An enlargement of this dress is featured in arnoldgalleries.com and #EmmaJanesFavoriteFashions New Home's garden inspirat...

updated 23 September 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> George C. Batcheller & Co., manufacturer Bridgeport CT and Newark NJ reverse of card above from Digital Commonwealth New to the Collection in December, 2017: The Corset and Underwear Review v.18 p.127 Ja 1922 via Google Books Title The Corset and Underwear Review, Volume 18 Publisher Haire Publishing Company, 1921 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Oct 2, 2012 In the Columbia University Library collection , a bill contains a sketch of the factory in Bridgeport CT: Sometime shortly before his death in 1915, George C. Batcheller used some of the profits from his corset business to buy the Betsy Ross House--or what was supposed to be the Ross House--and give it to a preservation society in Philadelphia. YouTube offers us a tour: " Virtual tour of the Betsy Ross home in ...