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WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
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The machine illustrated is a standard lockstitch machine, which would have been set into a sewing machine table and operated by a treadle. The small handle was used to start the wheel and thus the stitching operation, in the forward direction. This machine bears the serial number # 28.241 and the following patents:
US 174.703 D'Arcy Porter & George W. Baker March 14, 1876
May 2, 1876
US 183.528 George W. Baker October 24, 1876
January 16, 1877
US 188.537 D'Arcy Porter March 20, 1877
US 188.767 George W. Baker March 27, 1877
Machines bears the above US Patents are manufactured between
March 1877 c. and November 1881 c.
