Figure 88. — Monitor sewing machine, I860 1866. The Monitor machines of this style were 

 not marked by their manufacturers. Shaw & Clark of Biddeford. Maine. Later the company 

 was forced by the ''Combination" to pay a royalty, so it changed the style and began 

 marking its machines with the company name and patent dates (see fig. 1 19 for copy of seal). 

 The Monitor, which employed the conventional vertical spindle to hold the spool of thread, 

 had a top feed in the form of a walking presser. Its striated pillar was similar to that of the 

 Atwater machine, and both featured the same claw feet and urn-like top. Unlike the Atwater, 

 however, the Monitor had a double drive from the hand-turned wheel, which was grooved 

 for operation with belt and treadle. (Smithsonian photo 33458.) 



Figure 89. — Wilson sewing machine, late 1860s to early 1870s. In addition to the Buckeye 

 (see fig. 77), W. G. Wilson manufactured several other styles of sewing machines. This one, 

 a combination of the varying styles of the earlier pillar machine has even duplicated 

 the general style of the spool holder patented by Folsom. The pillar is not striated, but the 

 machine does repeat the claw feet of the Atwater and Monitor machines. Wilson machines 

 are usually marked "Wilson Sewing Mach. Manufg Co. Cleveland. Ohio, Ketchum's Patent 

 April 28, 1863." The latter name and or patent date are found on many of the machines of 

 this general construction. The patent is that issued to Stephen C. Ketchum for his method of 

 converting rotary motion into reciprocal motion. (Photo courtesy of The Henry Ford Museum 

 mid Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan.) 



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