Search Results - "sewing machine"

Sewing machines : historical trade literature in Smithsonian Institution collections.

Subjects: “…Sewing machines United States History Bibliography.…”

Costumes of all nations

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Machine stitch : perspectives by Kettle, Alice, 1961-

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Illustrator of Imperial fashions : for spring and summer 1896.

The empire's new clothes : a history of the Russian fashion industry, 1700-1917 by Ruane, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Fashion and ethnicity ; Fashion and social status ; Fashion and gender ; Fashion and capitalism ; Sources -- The emperor's new clothes: the creation of a fashion industry : The creation of a market for European dress ; Textiles ; The development of European custom tailoring and dressmaking ; Apprentices ; Journeymen ; Masters -- The gendering of sewing in Russia : Russian women's education and vocational training ; Charity and young women's education ; Sewing and the "woman's question" ; The sewing machine ; Sewing, prostitution, and vocational training ; Sewing and elementary education for girls -- The rise of ready-to-wear : The origins of the sweatshop ; New technologies ; Tariffs and imported clothing ; M. and I. …”

A Needle, a bobbin, a strike : women needleworkers in America

Table of Contents: “…Jensen -- "If I didn't have my sewing machine ... ": women and sewing machine technology / Ava Barm and Susan E. …”
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Common threads : a parade of American clothing by Hall, Lee

Table of Contents: “…Communication and the Cult of Womanhood. 7. The Sewing Machine and the Paper-Pattern Empires. 8. Dress Reform. 9. …”
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Tools and toys of stitchery by Whiting, Gertrude

Table of Contents: “…-- Beautiful bobbins -- Fast-flitting shuttles -- Pole-boards, candle-stools or candle-blocks -- Pinking blocks and other blocks here and there -- From beetles to hackles -- The song of the spinning-wheel -- On weaving -- The romance of the sewing-machine -- A few final suggestions and some stray sewing accessories -- Envoy -- Index.…”

Corsets : historic patterns and techniques by Salen, Jill

New York : a pictorial history by Davidson, Marshall B.

Table of Contents: “…Early exploration of New York -- Aborigines -- Dutch New York -- Dutch cities in the wilderness -- Dutch domesticity -- In the Dutch fashion -- Homes on the land -- New World Dutchmen -- English takeover -- New York under English rule -- Freedom of the press -- Borderland Indians -- French and Indian War -- England triumphant -- Along city streets -- Advertising -- Living in style -- Educating the gentry -- On the eve of war -- Preparation for a siege -- Battle for Manhattan -- Hudson Valley corridor -- Battle of Saratoga -- Arnold and André -- Frontier warfare -- Ratifying the Constitution -- Capital of the nation -- Return to the sea -- Capital cities -- Urban developments -- Duncan Phyfe's New York -- Federal style -- Scientific spirit -- Looking westward -- War of 1812 -- West Point -- Erie Canal -- Erie Canal cities -- Port of New York -- Steamboats on the Hudson -- Hudson River School -- Mount's Long Island -- Literary New York -- Style of life -- Metropolitan merchandising -- Tenements and shanties -- Urban traffic -- Water for the city -- Gaslight -- Early railroads -- Steamboats' heyday -- Farming the land -- Rent riots -- Publishing -- Correspondents -- Schools for the young -- Higher education -- Entertainment --outdoor and indoor sports -- Away for vacation -- Boom and bust -- Newcomers to the state -- Coming of the green -- Religion and reform -- Religious currents -- Sing Sing -- Crystal Palace -- Upstate cities at midcentury -- Syracuse and Utica -- Civil War -- Home front -- Draft riots -- Commerce, industry, and war -- Postwar corruption -- Industry upstate -- Industrial growth -- Sewing machine -- Burden Iron Works -- Rural living -- Rural economy -- In the small towns -- Batavia -- Troy -- Buffalo -- State capitol -- Faces on the wall -- Westchester -- Elevated railroads -- Brooklyn Bridge -- Croton Reservoir -- Central Park -- Cultural institutions -- Statue of Liberty -- New York mansions -- Slums -- Huddled masses.…”
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A passion for Renoir : Sterling and Francine Clark collect, 1916-1951 by Kern, Steven, 1958-

From curlers to chainsaws : women and their machines

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Margaret Woodbury Strong and the origin of the Strong Museum by Brayer, Elizabeth