Singer Sewing Machine
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1930
name: label: maker
content: Singer Company
notes: label: Description
content: This Singer sewing machine was purchased used for $10 by Flossie Haggard in 1931. James F. and Flossie Haggard left Oklahoma in 1935 after a fire destroyed their barn and its contents. The sewing machine was taken with them in their car and trailer trip to California via Route 66 in 1935. The Haggards and their children, Lillian and James Lowell, made their home near Bakersfield, and James found work with the Santa Fe Railway. Another son, Merle, was born in Bakersfield and began his singing career there.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: America on the Move
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James Lowell Haggard, Jr., Merle R. Haggard and Lillian Haggard Hoge
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0183.07
label: accession number
content: 2003.0183
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0183.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sewing machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (legs, treadle, machine material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in x 18 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm x 45.72 cm