1873 - Helen A. Blanchard's Sewing machine Patent Model (buttonhole)
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content: 1873
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content: 1873-08-19
name: label: maker
content: Blanchard, Helen A.
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content: Sewing Machine Patent model, Improvement in Sewing Machines, 1873. Helen A. Blanchard, of Boston, Massachusetts. Patent No. 141987 Issued August 19, 1873. This patent model for an improvement in sewing machines introduced the buttonhole stitch. Blanchard received some twenty-eight patents, many having to do with sewing. She is best remembered for inventing the zigzag overstitch sewing machine.
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Sewing Machines
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T06433.000
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content: T06433.000
label: accession number
content: 89797
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content: sewing machine patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.5 cm x 20 cm x 42 cm; 6 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 16 17/32 in