Composed of images and text. Models represented: 1, 3, 4, 5. Title from title page. Story of inventor, J.A. Davis (of the Davis vertical feed sewing machine); pictures of machines; price list; ...

IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...

In the early years of the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine was all but inevitable. Factories were filling with seamstresses and tailors, and savvy inventors and entrepreneurs around ...

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