Object numberM2006/007:001
Description"Singer" sewing machine, marked, "The Singer Manufacturing Co. manufactured in Great Britain" with a small metal trade mark. Attached is an electric lamp. The machine was purchased by the late Mark Gershwin (survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau) for his wife Lucy in 1950 in Australia, telling her, “You have to learn to sew to make clothes for the children; it looks like we won’t be wealthy.”
Subjectliberation, rag trade, sewing, women
Object namesewing machines
Dimensions
- height: 1050.00 mm
width: 900.00 mm
depth: 470.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Lucy Gershwin