Ceylon Sri Lanka Singer Manufacturing Co. Advertising Trade Card SP23

Vintage chromolithograph trade card from the Singer Manufacturing Co. world costume series, "Ceylon," copyright 1892.

Scene Details:

• Man in traditional Sinhalese dress (red and gold sarong, blue jacket) standing beside a Singer sewing machine
• Woman in white blouse and green skirt seated at a Singer treadle sewing machine
• Ornate patterned carpet and cane-back chair
• Soft painted sky background
• Caption printed on front: "CEYLON" and "OVER"
• Copyright notice: "Copyright 1892, by The Singer Manufacturing Co."
• Artist: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., New York (attributed)

Back text: Description of Ceylon as a Crown colony of Great Britain, 271 miles long by 137 miles wide, capital Colombo. Notes on the Sinhalese, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, and English castes. Singer Manufacturing Co. promotional text.

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