Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Portable electric sewing machine, model 128-23
Object Number:
2011.10.5ab
Date:
ca. 1952
Medium:
Metal, veneered wood, and other materials
Dimensions:
Case: 14 x 17 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (35.6 x 43.8 x 21 cm)
Overall (Sewing machine): 11 x 12 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (27.9 x 31.1 x 17
Description:
Portable table-top electric sewing machine, Singer model 128-23; black with gold stencilled lettering and ornament; with foot pedal and lamp. Veneered wood case. Serial number JGO46456.
Gallery Label:
The 1952 portable sewing machine was owned by the donor's mother-in-law, Kathryn Vislocky Gallagher (1918-1985). By the time the donor met her in the mid-1960s, the sewing machine was a fixture in her house, where it was kept out and at the ready on a small table. The elder Mrs. Gallagher loved to purchase McCall's dress patterns as well as fabric and buttons from the many small stores on the Lower East Side.
Credit Line:
Gift of Michael J. Gallagher and Mary Ann Dzupin Gallagher in memory of Kathryn Vislocky Gallagher
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
