Singer Employees
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Employees at the Singer Sewing Machine Factory pause for a photo, circa 1887. What can you learn about the people who worked at Singer from this picture? What kinds of clothes are they wearing? How old are they? How many men had mustaches? Can you see the people in the windows?
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Singer Sewing Machine Factory
Singer: a Better Machine 1850-1868Isaac Merritt Singer refined existing sewing machines in 1850 by adding a presser-foot system. The system surrounds the needle with a foot-like part that forces the fabric to lay flat when being fed into the machineā¦