print email comment close Sewing Machines: Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Collections URL: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/trade-literature/sewing-machines Description: "This guide illustrates the range of materials published by and about sewing machine companies in the United States, starting in the 1840s." Includes introductory essays about Smithsonian Institution trade catalogs and textile collections and "a finding aid to these sewing machine literature collections including scanned images of many of the texts." Also includes links to related collections. From the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Libraries LII Database Information: Record 25703 created by Sybil Finemel on 03/16/2008 Last modification on 03/19/2008 Published: 03/19/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25703