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Singer Advertising Card — Filipino Pair
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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.
1892
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company
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W01448R
WHi 3735
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