Credits

The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Development
by Grace Rogers Cooper

Digital Edition
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C.
February 2004

Originial Publication Information:
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976.
2d ed., rev. and expanded.
ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes: First published in 1968 under title: The Invention of the Sewing Machine.

Introductory essay by:
Barbara Suit Janssen
Museum Specialist, Textile Collection
Natural Museum of American History
Behring Center

Site design by Nicole Van Doren

Partial funding for this project was provided by The Research Libraries Group as part of the RLG Cultural Materials Content Development program for the History of Science and Technology

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