A Singer Sewing Machine storefront in Baybay in the Philippines in 1944
Gift of John M. Lynes Sr., from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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"An office of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in the Philippines. This one is located in Bay-Bay. Most every Filipino home however poor or rundown, possesses at least one sewing machine, and many of the families have two of them. They do a land office business on repair work for the GI's as well as make much of their own clothing." Philippines 1944 Number 25 of this collection is missing.
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Items from the service of Mary Lynes, Women's Army Corps (WAC), who served in the Pacific.
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Baybay
Latitude:
10.683
Longitude:
124.833
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Stores & shops--Philippines
Streets--Philippines