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Perhaps in response to a question by Wood about an advertisement for agents, Elias Clark of St. Louis, Missouri, writes that a prospective agent could buy a machine for $35 retail and test it out before trying to represent the product to others. He states his confidence in the "Raymond Double Threaded Family Sewing Machine," and reports it had been getting good reports from agents in Illinois. Clark's letter to Wood was written on the back of printed "rules for agents" and additional information about the sewing machine business.
Creator: Clark, Elias
Date: May 4, 1860
Item Number: 90358
Call Number: Samuel N. Wood Coll. #548
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90358
Collections - Manuscript - Wood, Samuel N.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Home and Family - Daily life - Household equipment
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Handbill
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
Places - Other States - Missouri
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Advertisements
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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