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Sewing machines

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Images about Sewing machines

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  • Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a linen room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].
  • A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.

Works from the collections

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    Huile extra-fine pour machines à coudre: product label. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 553572i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a linen room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].

    London & County Photographic Co. | Date: [1893?] | Reference: 43458i
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    A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.

    Willette, Adolphe, 1857-1926. | Date: [896] | Reference: 549405i
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    Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.

    Keene, Charles, 1823-1891. | Date: [1869] | Reference: 35340i

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