Object Details
- Singer Company
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Lowell Haggard, Jr., Merle R. Haggard and Lillian Haggard Hoge
- ca. 1930
- ID Number
- 2003.0183.07
- accession number
- 2003.0183
- catalog number
- 2003.0183.07
- Object Name
- sewing machine
- Physical Description
- wood (case material)
- 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
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- America on the Move
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1315849
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-1549-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
