Chapter Three
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A PARTIAL STATEMENT FROM RECORDS OF “THE SEWING-MACHINE COMBINATION,” SHOWING NUMBER OF SEWING-MACHINES LICENSED ANNUALLY UNDER THE ELIAS HOWE PATENT.
Name of Manufacturer.1853.1854.1855.1856.1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.1863.1864.1865.1866.
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co.7997561,1712,2104,5917,97821,30625,10218,55628,20229,77840,06239,15750,132
I. M. Singer & Co.8108798832,5643,6303,59410,95313,000(a)16,000(a)18,396................
The Singer Manufacturing Co.........................................20,03023,63226,34030,960
Grover & Baker S. M. Co.6572,0341,1441,9523,6805,07010,280(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)
A. B. Howe ” ” ”....605347133179921(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)
Leavitt ” ” ”2821715223519575213(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)
Ladd & Webster ” ” ”100268731804534901,788(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)
Bartholf ” ” ”13555313531203747(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)(b)
A PARTIAL STATEMENT SHOWING NUMBER OF SEWING-MACHINES LICENSED ANNUALLY FROM 1867 TO 1876 INCLUSIVE.
Name of Manufacturer.1867.1868.1869.1870.1871.1872.1873.1874.1875.1876.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.43,05359,62986,781127,833181,260219,758232,444241,679249,852262,316
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co.38,055(b)78,86683,208128,526174,088119,19092,827103,740108,997
Grover & Baker S. M. Co.32,99935,000(a)35,18857,40250,83852,01036,17920,000(a)15,000(a)....
Weed Sewing-Machine Co.3,63812,00019,68735,00239,65542,44421,76920,49521,99314,425
Howe Sewing-Machine Co.11,05335,000(a)45,000(a)75,156134,010145,000(a)90,000(a)35,000(a)25,000(a)109,294
A. B. Howe ” ” ”................20,051....................
B. P. Howe ” ” ”....................14,90713,919............
Willcox & Gibbs S. M. Co.14,15215,00017,20128,89030,12733,63915,88113,71014,52212,758
Wilson (W. G.) ” ” ”................21,15322,66621,24717,5259,508....
American B. H. & S. M. Co.........7,79214,57320,12118,93014,18213,52914,40617,937
Florence S. M. Co.10,53412,00013,66117,66015,94715,7938,9605,5174,8922,978
Shaw & Clark S. M. Co.2,6923,000................................
Gold Medal ” ” ”............8,91213,56218,89716,43115,21414,2627,185
Davis ” ” ”................11,56811,3768,861............
Domestic ” ” ”................10,39749,55440,11422,70021,45223,587
Finkle & Lyon Mfg. Co. and Victor.2,4882,0001,3392,4207,63911,9017,4466,2926,1035,750
Ætna Sewing-Machine Co.2,9583,5004,5485,8064,7204,2623,0811,8661,447707
Blees ” ” ”................4,5576,0533,458............
Elliptic ” ” ”3,185............4,555....................
Empire ” ” ”2,1215,0008,700............................
Remington Sewing-Machine Co.............3,5602,9654,9829,18317,60825,11012,716
Parham ” ” ”........1,1411,7662,056....................
Bartram & Fanton Mfg. Co.2,958............1,0041,0001,000250........
Bartlett Sewing-Machine Co.................6141,000................
J. G. Folsom................280....................
McKay Sewing-Machine Asso.............129218........128161102
C. F. Thompson................147....................
Union Buttonhole Machine Co.................124....................
Leavitt Sewing-Machine Co.1,0511,000771............................
Goodspeed & Wyman S. M. Co.2,126....................................
Keystone Sewing-Machine Co.....................2,66521737........
Secor ” ” ”....................3113,4304,5411,307....
Centennial ” ” ”........................514............
(a) Number estimated. (b) No data.
Figure 37.—Table of sewing-machine statistics. From Frederick G. Bourne, “American Sewing Machines” in One Hundred Years of American Commerce, vol. 2. ed. Chauncey Mitchell Depew (New York: D. O. Haines, 1895), p. 530. (Smithsonian photo 42542-A.)