HUNTINGTON -- When Sandy Skidmore uses a treadle sewing machine, it takes her back. She's a young girl in the 1940s, watching her mother and her aunt using the old-fashioned, non-electric machine.
On this day in 1855, American businessman Isaac Singer patented a motorized sewing machine that went on to be a household name across North America. Singer wasn't the first to market a sewing machine, ...
Composed of images and text. Models represented: 128-4, 20: child's sewing machine, Singer motor, Singer light. Title from cover. Pictures of different cabinets, including five drawer, seven drawer, ...