"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909
Singer Sewing Machines, founded in 1851 in Boston, was the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world by 1860. The company was known for its innovations in installment payment plans and early advertising, as well as creating international markets. Singer had a history of creating trading cards...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/12569 2023-05-15T18:49:00+02:00 "A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 Singer Sewing Machine Company United States--Washington (State)--Port Blakely circa 1909 Scanned from original item using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 1000 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CC, JPEG quality measurement 5. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12569 unknown Museum of History & Industry Collection 1964.3317.1.2 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12569 http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en MOHAI, [ID number] Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Lumber--Washington (State)--Port Blakely Sawmills--Washington (State)--Port Blakely Sewing machine industry Trade cards ephemera; image; text Stillimage 1909 ftuwashingtonlib 2019-03-16T23:37:26Z Singer Sewing Machines, founded in 1851 in Boston, was the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world by 1860. The company was known for its innovations in installment payment plans and early advertising, as well as creating international markets. Singer had a history of creating trading cards for world's expositions, including an international set of cards for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This card shows on the front a photograph of a ship mast being loaded onto a ship at Port Blakely Mills, a mill operating on the southern part of Bainbridge Island at Port Blakely from 1864 to 1922, and on the back an advertisement for Singer Sewing Machines. It was likely part of a set for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. Printed on recto: Copyright 1904 by B.L. Singley. Caption information sources: "How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War" by Alex Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, July 14, 2015, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-singer-won-sewing-machine-war-180955919/; "An Orphaned Sewing Machine" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Magazine, January 5, 2017, https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/an-orphaned-sewing-machine; "Port Blakely Mills & Mill Town: Historic Buildings/Cultural Resources Survey" by Charles Wilson and L.E. "Lars" Carlsson, April 1992, https://dahp.wa.gov/sites/default/files/PortBlakelyMillCR 1 advertising card 4.5 x 7.25 in. Still Image Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Pacific Carlsson ENVELOPE(-58.059,-58.059,-64.384,-64.384) |
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Lumber--Washington (State)--Port Blakely Sawmills--Washington (State)--Port Blakely Sewing machine industry Trade cards Singer Sewing Machine Company "A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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Singer Sewing Machines, founded in 1851 in Boston, was the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world by 1860. The company was known for its innovations in installment payment plans and early advertising, as well as creating international markets. Singer had a history of creating trading cards for world's expositions, including an international set of cards for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This card shows on the front a photograph of a ship mast being loaded onto a ship at Port Blakely Mills, a mill operating on the southern part of Bainbridge Island at Port Blakely from 1864 to 1922, and on the back an advertisement for Singer Sewing Machines. It was likely part of a set for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. Printed on recto: Copyright 1904 by B.L. Singley. Caption information sources: "How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War" by Alex Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, July 14, 2015, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-singer-won-sewing-machine-war-180955919/; "An Orphaned Sewing Machine" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Magazine, January 5, 2017, https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/an-orphaned-sewing-machine; "Port Blakely Mills & Mill Town: Historic Buildings/Cultural Resources Survey" by Charles Wilson and L.E. "Lars" Carlsson, April 1992, https://dahp.wa.gov/sites/default/files/PortBlakelyMillCR 1 advertising card 4.5 x 7.25 in. |
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"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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"A Shipmast Being Loaded at Port Blakely Mills, Near Seattle, Wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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"a shipmast being loaded at port blakely mills, near seattle, wash." advertising card, circa 1909 |
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1909 |
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http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12569 |
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United States--Washington (State)--Port Blakely |
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ENVELOPE(-58.059,-58.059,-64.384,-64.384) |
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Yukon Pacific Carlsson |
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Yukon Pacific Carlsson |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
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Museum of History & Industry Collection 1964.3317.1.2 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12569 |
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http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en MOHAI, [ID number] |
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