Click the photos below to see the story behind each machine.

The W. G. Wilson sewing machine, not to be confused with the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, was manufactured around 1870.

The Singer “Improved Family” sewing machine was the first model 15 that Singer made. This machine was manufactured in 1879.

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