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- Description:
- Trade card advertising the "Improved Family Singer Sewing Machine." An illustration of the sewing machine beneath the text, "Latest and Best," is show on the recto surrounded by a color patchwork pattern. A block of text about the machine, concluding with the address for the Singer Manufacturing Company at 191 Woodward Avenue, is on the verso surrounded by a stitch guide showing "100 Crazy Patchwork Stiches." The card is patented July 1, 1884.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Eight women, perhaps members of a sewing class. Singer Sewing Machine instructional posters and garments are hanging on the wall behind them. The women are identified as (no order specified): Mrs. Margaret S. Wright, Mrs. Kenneth (Elsie) Johnson, Mrs. G. C. Fields, Mrs. Rena Myers Ruonavaara, Mrs. Irma Rowley, Mabel Mosher, Mrs. Sepanek, and Mrs. J. A. (Margaret) Underwood.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A classroom of girls seated at desks working on hand-sewing projects, with two teachers in the classroom. Cedar Street School was located at the corner of Cedar and Wall (later changed to Maple) streets.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Schools Glass Slides
- Description:
- A photograph of a Walter French Junior High School sewing class. Several girls are hand-sewing, and one is using a sewing machine. An unidentified teacher helps one of the students.
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Walter French Junior High School students working with a pattern in a sewing class. The students are unidentified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Walter French Junior High School students examining finished garments in a sewing class. The students are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A view of a sewing class in progress at Walter French Junior High School. Two copies.
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Three women working on sewing in a room with a piano. The woman standing is Mary S. Lawrence. Note on sleeve: "No. 68. Aug. 29, 1898. 4 pm. Duble exposure 2 & 5 secs. Opr. Hattie."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
- Description:
- This is a small collection of the records of Lansing's Cosmopolitan Charity Club, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Ledgers of minutes, membership records, dues paid, reports, correspondence, a few newspaper clippings, and snapshots are included. The Club was focused on creating handcrafted items for donation, as well as fundraising and support for various organizations and individuals in the Lansing area. They made quilts, blankets, and children's clothes, plus some food items such as marmalade, and they raised money to help provide shoes and healthcare support at area hospitals and children's homes. Some of their charity work also went to areas outside of Lansing, such as donations to the Red Cross when an area of Mississippi was badly flooded. Most of the members were wives and daughters of prominent Lansing-area men. Also with these materials is one ledger of records from a Birthday Club, 1922-1925. It is possible that this club was a predecessor to the Cosmopolitan Charity Club, although there were many Birthday Clubs in Lansing in that era, most of which were subgroups of other clubs and organizations such as the Rebekahs or neighborhood associations. There is also typed poem "History of the Friendship Embroidery Club" by Mrs. Leroy A. Potter, which talks about a group of women who began meeting in 1907 or 1908 on Sparrow Street. It is possible these materials were previously in the possession of Mildred or Maude Seymour, daughter and wife of Chief of Police Alfred Seymour, at some point. They were both members, and one of the small notebooks included is embossed "A. J. Seymour" on the cover. The Lansing State Journal notes that Mrs. Alfred Seymour hosted the embroidery club on October 25, 1923.
- Date Created:
- [1922 TO 1966]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Cosmopolitan Charity Club
- Description:
- A group of seven women sewing in what appears to be a classroom. The bottom corner of the image is marked "OCD Photo."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
