Sewing Machine 

 Name Unknown 



Manufacturer 01 Company 



John W. Beane 



Henry Blind 



Garfield Sewing Machine Co. 



( leneva Sewing Machine Co. 



Gove & Howard 



Charles W. Howland, Wilmington, Del. 



Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 



Hood, Batelle & Co. 



Wells & Haynes 



Wilson H. Smith, Birmingham, Conn. 



First Made Discontinued 



oi Earliest or Last 



Record Record 



Figure 68. — American Buttonhole, Overseaming & 

 Sewing Machine of about 1870. Using serial numbers, 

 these machines can be dated approximately as follows: 

 1—7792, 1869; 7793—22366, 1870; 22367 — 12488, 1871; 

 12489—61419, 1872; 61420— 75602, 1873; 75603— 89132, 

 1874; 89133—103539, 1875; and 103540—121477, 

 1876. Figures are not available for the years from 1877 

 to 1886. (Smithsonian photo 46953 F.) 



Figure 69. — (New) American sewing machine of about 

 1874. Illustration is from a contemporary advertising 

 brochure. (Smithsonian photo 33507.) 



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