Postcard
Singer Advertising Card - Tunisian Woman
| Chromolithograph card of a woman in "native" Tunisian 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: | 57326 |
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| Creation Date: | 1892 |
| Creator Name: | J. Ollmann Lith Co. |
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| Collection Name: | Singer Manufacturing Company : 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, "TUNIS, One of the Barbary States of North Africa. Bounded North and North-west by the Mediterranean, South-east by Tripoli, South and South-west by Sahara, West by Algeria. It was long a dependency of Turkey, but has been under French protection since 1882. The native inhabitants are Moors, Arabs and Negroes. Very little is known of the interior of the country. Both manufactures and agriculture are in a very undeveloped state. Tunis, the capital city, built at the head of a lagoon connected with the Bay of Tunis, is a city of great antiquity, and is but three miles from the site and ruins of the ancient city of Carthage. For many years the Tunisian pirates were the scourge and terror of the marine of the world. Our picture represents a Tunisian woman in her peculiar dress, resting her hand upon the woman's faithful friend the world over, our 'Singer' which has its place in multitudes of Tunisian homes." |
| Sewing Machines |
| Clothing and dress |
| Costume |
| Sewing |
| Advertising |
| Souvenirs (Keepsakes) |
| Europeans |
| Women |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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