In the Victorian era, everyone had a calling card, even your friendly neighborhood sewing-machine salesman. Curiously, he often requested his engraver to print cards illustrated with frolicsome ...

They founded the Triangle Waist Company in 1900, producing ready ... Women operate sewing machines in a workroom similar to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, New York.

First located on the East Race, by 1900, the plant had outgrown these ... At the time, it was the largest sewing machine cabinet factory in the world. Covering 60 acres, it was self-sustaining ...

Shirtwaists, tailored blouses of the 1890s and early 1900s, became especially popular with working ... tragedies in American manufacturing history is the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. You ...

However, beginning in 1900 ... factory office. Some women knitted at home for the company and were paid on a commission basis. By World War II, women had expanded their duties to include sewing ...

Check out Karen Keane's appraisal of a Singer oak-cased sewing machine & table, ca. 1900, in Alaska Native Heritage Center, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and ...