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Sewing-machines—United States—History—Bibliography.  \n2. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries—Catalogs.  \nI. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. II. Title.  \nZ5853.M2 S55 2001  \n016.026'6462044'0973—dc21  \n2001000621  \nThis booklet was prepared and published by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries  \nFunding for the design and printing of the booklet was provided by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution  \nDesign by Stephanie Firestone Design  \nPhotography by the Smithsonian Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Services  \n∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.  \nImage identification. Cover: The Ross, Moyer Manufacturing Co.[n.d.]. Below, The Standard Sewing Machine Co.,(1895). Back cover: New Priscilla Sewing Machines. Priscilla Needlework Co. [n.d.]. Below, List of Parts. Singer Manufacturing Co. (1923). Title page: The Howe Sewing Machine Co. [n.d.], p. 12. Below: “The First Practical Sewing Machine – 1851.” Machine Sewing. A Treatise on the Care and Use of Family Sewing Machines and their Attachments. Singer Sewing Machine Co. (1938)  \nSewing Machines  \nHistorical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections  \nCONTENTS  \nii Foreword  \nby Nancy E. Gwinn  \niv “To the Trade …” The Trade Catalog Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries  \nby Rhoda S. Ratner  \nvi The Textile Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Behring Center  \nby Barbara Suit Janssen  \nviii The Archives Center Collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Behring Center  \nby John Fleckner ix Notes on Style x Access to the Collections x Glossary  \n1 Sewing Machines. Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections  \n45 Bibliography  \nby Barbara Suit Janssen  \n47 Index  \nManual of Athletic Underwear Manufacture. Union Special Machine Co. (1921), p. 33  \nForeword  \nThis guide illustrates the range of materials published by and about sewing  \nmachine companies in the United States and other countries, starting in the  \n1840s. Sewing machine catalogs and other industry materials are just one  \nportion of the remarkable collections of manufacturers’ trade literature held in the libraries, archives and curatorial units of the Smithsonian Institution. The trade literature collection managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) alone numbers some 285,000 pieces published since the mid-nineteenth century and representing 30,000 American companies. The Smithsonian Libraries is a 22-branch system serving the information and research needs of the Institution’s staff and the general public.  \nThe Smithsonian collects trade literature for use by staff who are entrusted with the care and study of manufactured objects now in the collections of the national museums. This guide to sewing machine literature includes materials held in three separate collections: in SIL’s Library in the National Museum of American History, Behring Center, and in the Museum’s Archives Center and in its Textiles Collection. The sewing machine project illustrates the collaborative efforts of Smithsonian staff to provide relevant and useful information to the public as well as to the museum and research communities. 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