201-650 1852
651-1449 1853
1450-2205 1854
2206-3376 1855
3377-5586 1856
5587-10177 1857
10178-18155 1858
18156-39461 1859
39462-64563 1860
64564-83119 1861
83120-111321 1862
111322-141099 1863
141100-181161 1864
181161-220318 1865
220319-270450 1866
270451-308505 1867
308506-357856 1868
357857-436722 1869
436723-519930 1870
519931-648456 1871
648457-822545 1872
822546-941735 1873
941736-1034563 1874
1034564-1318303 1875
1138304-1247300 1876

Records of the second series of serial numbers dating from 1876 are not
available.]

[Illustration: Figure 130.--WHITE SEWING MACHINE. Although the White
sewing machines date from 1876, Thomas H. White had been busy in the
manufacture of sewing machines for many years prior to this. White is
known to have been associated with Barker in the manufacture of the
Brattleboro machine and later with Grout in producing one of the several
New England machines. In 1866 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and began
manufacturing machines for sale under special trade names through
selling organizations. In 1876, the White Sewing Machine Company was
formed and machines were sold under the White name.

The machine illustrated is a standard lockstitch machine, which would
have been set into a sewing-machine table and operated by a treadle. The
small handle was used to start the wheel, and thus the stitching
operation, in the forward direction. This machine bears the serial
number 28241 and the following patents: "Mar. 14, 1876, May 2, 1876,
Oct. 24, 1876, Jan. 16, 1877, Mar. 20, 1877, Mar. 27, 1877," which are
primarily the patents of D'Arcy Porter and George W. Baker.

The machines of the 1870s may be dated approximately as follows:

_Serial Number_ _Year_

1-9000 1876
9000-27000 1877
27001-45000 1878
45001-63000 1879

(Smithsonian photo 48329-H.)]

[Illustration: Figure 131.--WILLCOX AND GIBBS SEWING MACHINE, serial
number 296572, of about 1878. From 1857 to the turn of the century, the
style of the Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine changed very little (fig.
39). It was the most popular and the most reliable of the many
chainstitch machines. In addition to the basic mechani