This boy’s watch advertisement is from the August 21, 1875 issue of Harper’s Weekly, an American weekly periodical. I had a little time to play with this ad tonight so I cleaned up the pocketwatch and created this black and white clipart version as well. Click on images to enlarge.
1870s
Vintage Sewing Machines
These vintage sewing machine images are from an 1878 agriculture magazine. If a reader of the magazine would render a little assistance by collecting and forwarding “few or many names of new and old subscribers” to the magazine, that reader became eligible to choose a “Present (free)”! Whether you were a man, woman or child, there were many “Pleasant,…
