Tuesday, April 19, 2022

May Manton patterns

 May Manton was a mail-order company that advertised in newspapers (and possibly magazines?  Harder to find evidence of this online) from 1889 to the late 1910s, consistently, and possibly into the 1920s.  They used incredible artwork--they should be a coloring book!--in their ads in the 1910s but ran aground financially and seem to have tried to reorganize around 1919-1920.

These are all from 1915. 


I'm still pulling images but links to the albums are posted below.

May Manton 1910-1920s

May Manton 1905-1909

May Manton 1900-1904

May Manton 1890-1899


Sue Burnett and Barbara Bell 1957

 The designs and numbers are the same. Sue Burnett 1957.