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The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper
The Sewing Machine Combination or Sewing Machine Trust
Vibrating Shuttle Sewing Machines History
Running-Stitch Machines
Button-Hole Machines
- US Patents for B.H. Machines
- GB Patents for B.H. Machines
- A New Buttonhole machine
Book-Sewing Machines
- US Patents for Book-Sewing Machines
Glove-Sewing Machines
- Machines Pictures
- Tanning and Glove Making
- Hungarian Gloves - Magyar Kesztyű
- Handschuhfabrik Gustav Schaarschmidt
- US Patents for Glove-Sewing Machines
- GB Patents for Glove-Sewing Machines
Shoe Making Machines
- US Patents for Shoe Making Machines
- GB Patents for Shoe Making Machines
- Pegging Machines
  - US Patents for Pegging Machines
  - GB Patents for Pegging Machines
- Shoe Stitching Machines
  - US Patents for Shoe Stitching Machines
  - GB Patents for Shoe Stitching Machines
- Welting Machines
  - US Patents for Welting Machines
  - GB Patents for Welting Machines
- Lasting Machines
  - US Patents for Lasting Machines
  - GB Patents for Lasting Machines
- Wax-Thread Sewing Machines
  - US Patents for Wax-Thread Sewing Machines
  - Campbell Machine Company
Needles
- British Needle Makers
  - Redditch
- German Sewing Needles
- Needles & Pins Patents
  - GB Patents for Needles
  - US Patents for Needles
Shuttles & Bobbins
- US Patents for Shuttles & Bobbins
- Flying Shuttle
Bobbin Winders
Thread Tension Regulators
Feed Reversing Mechanism
Attachments and Accessories
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN SEWING MACHINES
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
PATENTS
- AMERICAN PATENTS
  - American Patents from 1790 to 1841
- American Patent Models
- American Patentees
- BRITISH PATENTS ... 1617-1852 Old Serie
- BRITISH PATENTS ... 1852-1915 New Serie
- British Patentees
- CANADIAN PATENTS
- Canadian Patentees
- FRENCH PATENTS
- GERMAN PATENTS
DATING FRISTER & ROSSMANN
FRISTER & ROSSMANN
- Development of Frister&Rossmann
- W&W System
- SAX Models
- F.B. Models
- T.S. Models
- V.S. Models
- C.B. Models
- W&G (Wilcox & Gibbs clone)
- F&R Treadles
- Attachments and more
- F&R Badges
- F&R Typewriters
- F&R Bayonets
BRITISH Machines
- BRITISH Machines Part 1
- BRITISH Machines Part 2
- BRADBURY & Co.
  - Extra
- BRITANNIA SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- BRITISH SEWING MACHINE COMPANY Ltd
- ECLIPSE MACHINE COMPANY
- ESSEX
- GRAIN E. L. Ltd
- W. J. HARRIS & C0.
- IMPERIAL SEWING MACHINE CO.
- JONES & CO.
- LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE Co
  - Lancashire Patents
- SELLERS W.
- SHEPHERD, ROTHWELL & HOUGH
- VICKERS
- WEIR'S
AMERICAN Machines
- AETNA SEWING MACHINE
- AMERICAN B.H.O. & SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - A.B.H.O. US Patents
  - A.B.H.O. Machines
  - A.B.H.O. Advertisements
- AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- AVERY SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- BARTHOLF SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- BARTLETT SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - Bartlett Sewing Machines
  - Bartlett Patents
  - Bartlett's timeline
- BARTRAM & FANTON Mfg. Co.
- BECKWITH SEWING MACHINE Co.
- BOYE NEEDLE COMPANY
- BURNET, BRODERICK & CO.
- CONTINENTAL MANUFACTURING Co.
- DAVIS SEWING MACHINE CO.
  - DATING DAVIS
  - Davis by Models
  - Davis Mysteries
  - Davis Patents
  - Davis Treadles
  - Davis Advertisements
- DEMOREST SEWING MACHINE MANUFACTURING CO.
  - Demorest Running Stitch Sewing Machine
  - Sewing Machines
  - M'me Demorest
  - Demorest Chronology
- DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - Domestic Sewing Machines
  - Domestic adverts
- DORCAS Sewing Machine
- EMPIRE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - When Our Town Was Young
  - News from the Past
  - Putnam & Westchester County
  - Red Mills
  - 1876 Supreme Court - Case and Exceptions
- EPPLER & ADAMS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - Company Patents
- GOODSPEED & WYMAN S.M. Co.
- GREIST MANUFACTURING COMPANY
  - Greist Mfg. Company U.S. PATENT
  - The "Griest" Family
- GROVER & BAKER SMC
  - DATING GROVER & BAKER
  - Grover & Baker Sewing Machines
  - Grover & Baker Advertisements
  - Grover & Baker Patents
  - Grover & Baker Awards
- HEBERLING RUNNING STITCH GUAGING MACHINE Co.
- HIBBARD, SPENCER, BARTLETT & Co.
  - H. S. B. & Co. Sewing Machines
- HODGKINS MACHINE
- HOWE MACHINE COMPANY (Elias)
  - DATING HOWE (Elias)
- HOWE S. M. C. (Amas)
  - DATING HOWE (Amas)
  - Sewing Machines ... (by Amas)
- N. HUNT & CO.
- HUNT & WEBSTER
- JOHNSON, CLARK & CO.
- LEAVITT & CO.
- LEAVITT SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- LEAVITT & BRANT
- LENOX MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- NETTLETON & RAYMOND SEWING MACHINES
  - Correspondences
- NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - DATING NEW HOME
- NICHOLS & BLISS
- NICHOLS & Co.
- NICHOLS, LEAVITT & CO.
- REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - The Caligraph
- REECE BUTTON HOLE MACHINE COMPANY
  - Reece Button Hole Machines
- SINGER
  - DATING SINGER
  - Two New Singer Machines
  - Singer Patents
  - Singer Awards
- SMYTH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- UNION BUTTONHOLE and EMBROIDERY MACHINE COMPANY
- UNION BUTTON-HOLE MACHINE COMPANY
- UNION BUTTON SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- TABITHA Sewing Machine
- WARDWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
  - Wardwell Patents
- WATSON, WOOSTER & Co.
- WEED SMC
  - DATING WEED
- WHEELER & WILSON
  - DATING WHEELER & WILSON
  - Wheeler & Wilson Adverts
  - 1850 News
  - The Factory at Rockdale
  - Death of Mr. Wheeler
- WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - DATING & IDENTIFYING White Sewing Machines
  - 1883 The Improved White
  - Advertising
  - Family (VS) Sewing Machine
  - Gem Sewing Machine
  - Peerless Sewing Machine
  - Rotary Sewing Machine
  - White Machines Made in Japan
  - Ancestors and descendants of Thomas Howard White
  - Miscellaneous
- WILLCOX & GIBBS
  - DATING WILLCOX & GIBBS
- WILSON SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
  - The Wilson Sewing Machine Palace
  - Advertisements
CANADIAN Machines
- CANADA SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
- RAYMOND SEWING MACHINE Co.
  - Raymond's Sewing Machines
  - Raymond Patents
- WANZER SEWING MACHINE Co.
  - DATING WANZER
  - The Wanzer Company's New Factory
GERMAN Machines
- Deutsche Nähmaschinen-Hersteller und Händler
- Development in industrial sales
- About innovations on sewing machines
- Bielefeld Nähmaschinenfabriken
- Nähmaschinen in Leipzig
- ADLER
- ANKER-WERKE A.G.
  - Anker Sewing Machines
  - Miscellaneous
- BAER & REMPEL
  - DATING BAER & REMPEL
- BEERMANN CARL
- BELLMANN E.
- BIESOLT & LOCKE
  - Sewing Machine and Adverts
- BOECKE
- BREMER & BRÜCKMANN
- CLAES & FLENTJE
- DIETRICH & Co.
- DÜRKOPP
- GRIMME, NATALIS & Co.
  - Grimme, Natalis & Co. Advertising
- GRITZNER
  - DATING GRITZNER
- HAID & NEU
  - DATING HAID & NEU
- HENGSTENBERG & Co.
- JUNKER & RUH
  - DATING JUNKER & RUH
  - Junker & Ruh Sewing Machines
  - Junker & Ruh Patents
- KAISER
- LOEWE & Co. / LÖWE & Co.
- MANSFELD
  - Adverts
- MÜLLER CLEMENS
  - DATING CLEMENS MÜLLER
- MUNDLOS
  - DATING MUNDLOS
  - Klasse 15
  - Klasse 52
  - Klasse 77
  - Klasse 79 M
  - Klasse 88
  - Klasse 90
  - Klasse 99
  - Klasse 100
  - Klasse 101
  - Klasse 111
  - Klasse 112
  - Klasse 113
  - Klasse 115
  - Klasse 125
  - Klasse 132
  - Klasse 141
  - Klasse 222
  - Klasse 224
  - Klasse 232
  - Klasse 235
  - Klasse 250
  - Klasse 252
  - Klasse 260
  - Mundlos Patents
  - Miscellaneous
  - 1931 Mundlos Catalogue
- OPEL
  - DATING OPEL
  - Opel Sewing Machines
- PFAFF
  - DATING PFAFF
- POLLACK , SCHMIDT & CO.
- SCHMIDT & HENGSTENBERG
- SEIDEL & NAUMANN
- SINGER NÄHMASCHINEN IN GERMANY
- STOEWER
  - Stoewer Sewing Machines
- VESTA
  - Sewing Machines
  - Advertisements
- WERTHEIM
- WINSELMANN
ITALIAN Machines
- PRINETTI STUCCHI & Co.
- BORLETTI
  - Borletti Sewing Machines
- NECCHI
- RIMOLDI
- SALMOIRAGHI
HUNGARIAN / MAGYAR Machines / Varrógépek
- ADRIA
AUSTRIAN Machines
- Österreichischer Nähmaschinen-Hersteller und Händler
- BOLLMANN M.
- L. BOLLMANN & Co.
- ENGLER & COMP.
- JOSEF ANGER & SÖHNE
- MINERVA
- C. POLZER & Co.
- RAST & GASSER
- M. SCHWARZ'S NACHFOLGER
- WIENER
BELGIAN Machines
- H.J. PETIT
- JANUS Societe Anonyme
  - Janus S.A. Advertising
- LE PROGRES INDUSTRIEL
FRENCH Machines
- HURTU
- OMNIA
RUSSIAN Machines
- SINGER Russian Made Sewing Machines
- TULA Sewing Machines
- KHARKOV M-4
SWEDISH Machines
- Sewing Machines
  - Miscellaneous
  - HUSQVARNA
SWISS Machines
- BERNINA
- HELVETIA
- TAVARO S.A. - "ELNA"
- TURISSA
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
- 1850 NEW YORK - FAIR
  - Sewing Machines present at the 23rd Annual Fair
- 1850 BOSTON
  - Sewing Machines present at the VI Exhibition
- 1851 LONDON
  - Sewing Machines present at the Exhibition
  - Crystal Palace: A History
  - Crystal Palace Pictures
  - 1936 fire
- 1851 NEW YORK - FAIR
- 1852 NEW YORK - FAIR
- 1853 NEW YORK - FAIR
- 1853 BOSTON
  - Sewing Machines present at the VII Exhibition
- 1853 DUBLIN
- 1853-4 NEW YORK
  - Sewing Machines present at the Exhibition
- 1854 MELBOURNE
- 1855 NEW YORK - FAIR
  - Sewing Machines Awarded at the 27th Annual Fair
- 1855 PARIS
- 1856 BOSTON
  - Sewing Machines present at the VIII Exhibition
- 1856 NEW YORK - FAIR
  - Sewing Machines present at the 28th Annual Fair
- 1860 STUTTGART
- 1861 MELBOURNE
- 1862 LONDON
  - From our Special Correspondent
- 1866 ALTONA
- 1869 BOSTON
  - Special Notices
  - List of Awards
- 1873 VIENNA World Exhibition
  - Glove Making
- 1876 PHILADELPHIA
  - The Machines of 1876
  - Sewing Machines awarded at the Exhibition
- 1884 LONDON Health Exhibition
- 1884 LONDON International and Universal Exhibition
- 1885 LONDON South Kensington Exhibition
- 1887 LONDON American Exhibition
- 1889 PARIS Exposition Universelle
  - Sewing Machines present at the Exposition
- 1893 LONDON The Sewing and Domestic Machines' Show
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