Postcard
Singer Advertising Card - Welsh Group
| Chromolithograph card of two women and one man from Wales in "native" Welsh 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: | 57691 |
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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, "WALES, a great peninsula in the west of Great Britain, bounded by the Irish Sea, St. George's Channel, and the Bristol Channel, and touching the English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Hereford and Monmouth. The population of Wales contains Brythonic elements mixed with Goidelic and Invernian or pre-Celtic, probably pre-Aryan. The principality of Wales in administratively a part of England, though differing more or less widely in blood, language and national character. It is a mountainous land contains Snowdon, the highest point in South Britain; and is in the north particularly picturesque. The climate is similar to that found in England. The Welsh language is generally spoken throughout Wales. The costumes shown in our picture are those of peasantry living on the west coast of Wales. The tall hats worn by the two women are exclusively Welsh, and are considered very valuable heirlooms, being handed down through several generations." One of three cards in PH 2359 lot that does not appear in PH 6403 lot. |
| Costume |
| Dresses |
| Hats |
| Sewing |
| Advertising |
| Souvenirs (Keepsakes) |
| Beards |
| Europeans |
| Men |
| Moustache |
| Women |
| Sewing Machines |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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