Title
Vente annuelle un million de machines [One million machines sold annually].
Coverage
Paris:
Publisher
Singer Sewing Machines,
Date
1900.
Description
The Singer sewing machine, patented by Isaac Singer in 1851, grew into a phenomenal success. It changed women’s lives immensely by freeing them from hand sewing and gave them experience using machinery, a workshop skill. This chromolithographed trade card, offering a 10% discount for paying cash, was made for the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris where the machine won the Grand Prize. The machines sold for 90 French francs and up. Like Verger and Bouquet, the printer, J. E. Goosens, created many movable trade cards for Au Bon Marché and other stores.
Source
Collection of Ellen G. K. Rubin.