sewingmachines
75 photos and 1 illustration tagged sewingmachines, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.
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- Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- The Library of Congress
- Mennonite Church USA Archives
- SMU Libraries Digital Collections
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
- State Library of Queensland
- Cornell University Library
- Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- New York Public Library
- Florida Memory
- Library Company of Philadelphia
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The last upload was August 2025.
Dalhart (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2016
Dalhart (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2016
New Home Sewing Machine Co. from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded July 2016
Compliments of New Home of Sewing Machine Co. from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded July 2016
Gr10-12f+-115 from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America uploaded August 2014
Unidentified tailor in Tallahassee, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded February 2014
St Margaret's clothes factory, Aberbargoed from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales uploaded November 2013
"Domestic" Fashion Rooms, 111 Chestnut St., Phila. from Library Company of Philadelphia uploaded July 2013
Tailor Shop from Mennonite Church USA Archives uploaded July 2013
Market Square, Letterkenny from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2013
"Unidentified" = City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2012
A Most Ingenious Device from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2012
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In the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Unidentified tailor in Tallahassee, Florida
from Florida Memory
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Humdrum Ladybug said:
You have some very nice old pictures .... thanks for sharing them!! Bill. 5/28/14
January 27, 1916
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Swordscookie said:
Nuns? Nurses? Women in uniform? Hygiene or what. It is strange to see the dress given the nature of the work they were doing!
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blackpoolbeach said:
Very high ceiling without a picture rail where the flies used to breed. I cannot work out if they are gas mantles that have been converted to electric lights. I remember gas lights with 2 chains hanging to regulate the gas supply. www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-lighting.htm
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie I'm thinking volunteers, some of whom may well have been nurses. But given the nature of the enterprise and that it was probably run in a very disciplined manner, that they were expected to wear the apron and veil affair; and for hygiene too as you say...
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philip ward said:
Probably standard Red Cross uniforms for the period.
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John FitzPatrick Leisen said:
The system they used to get in all our lives,.The schools & hospitals,.Now we can't get them out,.Thank you, Brenda,.did you happen to see this,. Smiling Eamon de Valera "Follier Upper"