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155 photos and 16 illustrations tagged sewing, from 27 members of Flickr Commons.

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• victoriantradecards
• muohiodigitalcollections
• publicdomain
• sewingmachines
• libraryofcongress
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• australianwarmemorial
• mechanicalcurator
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• girls
• woman
• mennonite
• manufacturing
• machine
• pubplacelondon
• thread
• sewingcircle
• alberta

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• Mennonite Church USA Archives 38 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 25 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 16 photos & illustrations
• Australian War Memorial collection 13 photos & illustrations
• British Library 13 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 11 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 7 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 6 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 5 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 4 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 4 photos & illustrations

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Women sewing military uniforms in Brisbane

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  In the early 1940s a number of factories opened, staffed mainly by women. These included a munitions factory at Rocklea and 12 textile factories in Brisbane. At one textile factory in Roma Street an incredible 19,000 garments were produced each week by only 200 women. Their work was gruelling, poorly paid and it demanded long hours. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/extras/ww2/women.htm

A Most Ingenious Device

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 15 older comments, and then…
• Niall McAuley said:

  Also, a girl's best friend! I have one holding up a fishbowl, a two-drawer version of that four-drawer one in the foreground.

• ClickKen04 said:

  My Mum had one of these up to ten years ago, my own kids loved playing with it when they were toddlers in the 80's. These can go for a nice little sum depending on their condition. Nice shot Carol.

• Swordscookie said:

  My late mother had one just like the one in the foreground. It was also a very ingenious device. The machine tilted on hinges, you lifted the table it sat on out of the way, again on hinges, the machine folded down below the level of the table and the whole thing closed up so that you had a neat table/worktop with a fancy singer stand beneath. I remember rooting through drawers like those and finding bobbins and reels and being fascinated by the movement of the bobbin underneath the baseplate!

• Gerry Ward said:

  The factory in the poster is of the Kilbowie Road, Clydebank factory, with its distinctive clock tower.

• Gerry Ward said:

  The Russian poster "Компания Зингеръ Швейная машиъі" means 'The Singer Sewing Machine Company".

Dalhart (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  American singer/songwriter Vernon Dalhart, see
  

• Arden said:

  Thanks Art Siegel. We will update the description.