Postcard
Singer Advertising Card - Chinese Woman
| Chromolithograph card of a woman in "native" Chinese costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of All Nations," set created as a souvenir at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. |
| Image ID: | 57560 |
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| Creation Date: | 1892 |
| Creator Name: | J. Ollmann Lith Co. |
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| Collection Name: | Singer Manufacturing Company records, 1850-circa 1975 |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2359 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.125 x 5.25 inches |
| Text on back reads, "CHINA, China proper, occupying the South-east portion of the Chinese Empire, lies on the Eastern slope of the Tablelands of Central Asia. The Capital city is Pekin [Peking]. The climate is extremely varied, the country fertile, well watered and carefully cultivated. Chinese history begins with Yu the Great. About 2,200 B.C. China was composed of several independent States until 247 B.C. when they were united under one ruler with the title of Hoang (Emperor). As a race, they are distinguished by the Mongolian conformation of the head and face, oblique eyes and straight black hair. The language is monosyllabic. They are intelligent, industrious, practical and pacific. Three religions dominate: The Confucian, Buddhist and Taouist [Taoist]. It is not unusual for a Chinaman to profess all three. The fashionable length of a woman's shoe in China is three and a half inches. Our picture represents a Chinese woman with her dainty feet operating our light-running "Singer" Machine, which has found its way into multitudes of Chinese homes." |
| Costume |
| Dresses |
| Sewing |
| Advertising |
| Souvenirs (Keepsakes) |
| Asians |
| Women |
| Sewing Machines |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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