Grace Rogers Cooper Showing Sewing Devices
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Date: 1968
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1968
Grace Rogers Cooper, curator of Division of Textiles, shows two mechanical sewing devices that preceded that of Elias Howe: a 1842 leather stitcher by John Greenough, and a 1843 machine by Benjamin Bean.
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Featured in TORCH, March 1968
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1968
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1968
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94-1525
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print