Name/Title
Machine, SewingEntry/Object ID
GHS 1071 A-PDescription
Treadle machine set in table with hinged cover. No drop leaf table-treadle of simple design with space for two feet.
Decoration- black with gold scroll design under hinged cover are machine itself, 2 drawers and a compartment with hinged lid. Each foot of machine has screw hole to attach machine to floor.
A. machine
B. second large sewing plate
C-G. 5 Various foot plates
H-L. 5 metal bobbins on post in compartment
M. Wrench
N. Old used piece of bees wax
O. Small oil can
P. Bass colored metal thimble.
Label in interior reads as follows,
"First shirt made at League Island Navy Yard for the Union
Army, in the Civil War was made on this Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
Gift of Charles Lamon"
Label is brittle darkened and missing at one edge label is affixed by means of 3 tacks.Made/Created
Artist
Wilson and Wilson, MFG co./Bridgeport, Conn.Date made
1850Notes
Creation Date: 1850sDimensions
Height
36 inWidth
26 inDepth
19-1/2 in