Postcard
Singer Advertising Card - Irish Couple
Chromolithograph card of an Irish couple from Londonderry in "native" Irish 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: | 57689 |
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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, "LONDONDERRY, or Derry, a city, seaport and parliamentary borough in the north of Ireland, is situated on an eminence overlooking the River Foyle, 3 miles from its mouth and 18 miles from the entrance to Lough Foyle. By rail, it is 163 miles north north-west of Dublin and 95 miles north-west of Belfast. Londonderry grew up around a monastery founded here in 546 by St. Columbia. It was frequently held by the Danes, from the 9th to the 11th century. The harbor of Lough Foyle is deep, extensive and safe, and two of the great atlantic liners stop at the harbor's entrance on their trips each way between Europe and America. The scenery in Ireland is beautiful and the climate more equable than that of Great Britain. The sewing machine forms one of the extra subjects of instruction in the national schools of Ireland, and the "Singer" has been chosen as the best machine for this purpose. Our picture represents a man and woman of the Irish peasantry habited in the dress most frequently worn by them." One of three cards in PH 2359 lot that does not appear in PH 6403 lot. |
Women |
Clothing and dress |
Costume |
Sewing |
Advertising |
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) |
Europeans |
Men |
Smoking |
Sewing Machines |
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