Postcard
Singer Advertising Card — Filipino Pair
| Chromolithograph card of a boy and a girl from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in "native" Filipino 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: | 3735 |
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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 6403, Box 2, Folder 10 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Text on back reads, "MANILLA [sic], One of the great emporiums of the East, and capital city of the Philippine Islands, is located on the Island of Luzon. It was founded by Ligaspi in 1571. The inhabitants are Indians and Spaniards. Its manufactures and exports are Cigars and Cheroots, also Cordage [i.e. braided rope] made from the filaments of Abaca. The City has a very Oriental appearance, the houses being built on pillars above the ground to admit the free passage of water underneath in the rainy season. The Spanish inhabitants, as well as the Native Indians, use and prize our "Singer" Machine, which has found its way to this Island of the Sea." One of four cards not included in the set at PH 2359. |
| Costume |
| Sewing |
| Advertising |
| Souvenirs (Keepsakes) |
| Asians |
| Men |
| Women |
| Youth |
| Sewing Machines |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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