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Title: The Invention of the Sewing Machine

Author: Grace Rogers Cooper

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

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BULLETIN 254

WASHINGTON, D.C.

1968

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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS

_The Invention
Of the Sewing Machine_

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_Grace Rogers Cooper_

CURATOR OF TEXTILES
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON, D.C. 1968

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