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Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York – Vintage Print

Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co. 495 Broadway New York

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The print advertises the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company at 495 Broadway, a New York showroom address for a firm better known for its Boston manufacturing. The record spells the name "Banker," but the company was Grover & Baker, whose reversible-feed lockstitch machines were among the most widely sold in the United States during the 1850s and 1860s. Sewing machine firms of this era often used engraved or lithographed pictures like this one to promote their goods to shoppers and dealers along busy commercial streets such as Broadway. The shelflist card does not record a date, so the print's exact age is uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Crow. PAGA(2) 83-29. Check 500 field.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112223

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