sewing machines

"Nebraska Gothic," the John Curry sod house near West Union, Nebraska

summary: Note: A "deep well" outfit. An article by Wanda Corn entitled "The painting that became a symbol of a nation's spirit" (on file) notes the influence of this photograph and others on Grant Woods' "Ame... More

Portugal (Vianna) / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.

Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing two people from Portugal with Singer sewing machine. Copyright by Singer Manufacturing Co.

U.S.S. New York, ship's tailor - Public domain photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sewing machine. Girl operating sewing machine

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Rel...

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. No original photographic print. Library made print in LOT... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sophy and the baby in the tenement

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Fashions for the spring of 1876

2936 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. "Domestic" Sewing Mach... More

East Custer County, Nebraska.. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

summary: Note: The two girls are wearing dresses made from the same material. original size: 6x8

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sew for victory / Pistchal. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Co...

Poster promoting sewing as contribution to the war effort, showing outline of sewing machine with war images. Poster design by Pistchal. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Milagros "Millie" Cueto sewing gown with sewing machine.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Elsa Mantilla, Milagros Cueto and unidentified girl look at dress patt...

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Rel...

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-45-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... More

The "New home" in the far west / W.U. Morgan & Co. Lith, Cleveland, O.

Trade card, advertising New Home Sewing Machine Co., showing family outside of house.

All nations use Singer sewing machines / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bu...

Advertisement for Singer sewing machines, showing many small scenes (perhaps also trade cards) of people in national costume using treadle machines. X41326 U.S. Copyright Office. Card no. 2. Captions: Italy; Sp... More

Making baby's clothes, Harry Whittier Frees photo of dressed up animal

Photograph shows a puppy wearing a dress and placed at a toy sewing machine with a tiny puppy sleeping in a cradle. J193651 U.S. Copyright Office.

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

Gaikokujin ifuku shitate no zu - Public domain dedication image

Japanese print shows a foreign woman using a sewing machine while her husband and children sit together in the background. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey 11. Annotations, stamps, etc. on vers... More

Fashions for the summer of 1874

6758 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. "Domestic" Sewing Mach... More

U.S.S. New York, ship's tailor, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit...

Attribution based on negative D4-20739. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020772. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer act... More

U.S.S.R., Moscow, temporary Russian exhibition

Photograph shows a woman and boy walking by a display of sewing machines at the USSR Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, next to the American National Exhibition. (Source: Arianne Kouri, 2013) Title from cont... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Milagros "Millie" Cueto sewing gown with sewing machine.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Elsa's Fashions, a dress shop at 368 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Empire Sewing Machine Co., New York / Henry Seibert & Bros., general l...

Views of New York & Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, sewing machines, people sewing by hand and with sewing machines, and transportation by stagecoach and railroad train. Copyright by Empire Sewing Machine Company. ... More

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

Southwest Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company M...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sewing-machine operator threading her machine.

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Wescott, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: "This was the location of the original Douglas Grove post office, one of the first two post offices established in Custer County, the other was New Helena." Information from Custer County Histori... More

A "New Home" sewing machine in an Indian dwelling / Algot Lange, New Y...

Photograph shows a young Native woman seated at a "New Home" sewing machine in a hut. J153552 U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: In the Amazon Jungle : Adventures in remote parts of the Upper Amazon ... / Al... More

[Man with foot treadle sewing machine and pile of quilts behind him, G...

Label caption for color reference copy slide page: Gangtok: Bazaar. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 127 (co... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Zululand / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.

Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing six people from Zululand with Singer sewing machine. Copyright by Singer Manufacturing Co.

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Sewing-machine operator threading her machine.

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Empire Sewing Machine Co., New York / Henry Seibert & Bros., general l...

Views of New York & Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, sewing machines, people sewing by hand and with sewing machines, and transportation by stagecoach and railroad train. Copyright by Empire Sewing Machine Company. ... More

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Rel...

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-45-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... More

"W.H. Blair or Huckleberry, near Broken Bow, 1888." Custer County, Ne...

summary: Note: The mules are pulling a "grasshopper" or breaking plow. Also, two of the girls are wearing dresses made from the same material. original size: 6x8

Making dollar dresses, Washington Irving High School

Girls using sewing machines to make dresses in high school, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Herron's Saddle Shop Interior. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collec...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sewing machine operators making garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on 09/14/94, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alt...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994. Here she is operating a "Merrow machine" (manufactured... More

Zululand / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.

Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing six people from Zululand with Singer sewing machine. Copyright by Singer Manufacturing Co.

Interior view of the central office of I.M. Singer & Co., 458 Broadway...

Print shows interior view of large room with women looking at sewing machines and several men looking at merchandise displays. Possibly engraved by Edward Keating, b. 1825 or 6. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illus... More

U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's tailor, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit...

Attribution based on negative D4-20231. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Negative broken into three pieces and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020244. Gift; State Historical... More

U.S.S. Brooklyn, ship's tailor - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sewing machine. Girl operating sewing machine

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elsa Mantilla, Aurora Goicoechea and Milagros Cueto.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Sewing-machine operators assembling garments. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

One of three or four types of sewing machine used in the shop.

Forms part of a group of images documenting Elsa's, a clothing store and gift shop on the avenue.