Singer Sewing Machine: Museum Object and Cultural History
Singer Sewing Machine: Date made: ca. 1930. maker: Singer Company. Object Name: sewing machine.
The object in the museum catalogue
This Singer sewing machine was purchased used for $10 by Flossie Haggard in 1931. James F. and Flossie Haggard left Oklahoma in 1935 after a fire destroyed their barn and its contents. The sewing machine was taken with them in their car and trailer trip to California via Route 66 in 1935. The Haggards and their children, Lillian and James Lowell, made their home near Bakersfield, and James found work with the Santa Fe Railway. Another son, Merle, was born in Bakersfield and began his singing career there.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: ca. 1930
- maker: Singer Company
- Object Name: sewing machine
- Physical Description: wood (case material)
- Physical Description: steel (legs, treadle, machine material)
- Measurements: overall: 36 in x 40 in x 18 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm x 45.72 cm
- ID Number: 2003.0183.07
- accession number: 2003.0183
- catalog number: 2003.0183.07
- Credit Line: Gift of James Lowell Haggard, Jr., Merle R. Haggard and Lillian Haggard Hoge
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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