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Mustard Hot Montana Portable Typewriter, Red Hot Keys, as Temperatures Reach...
*That is, 42, as in degrees Celsius (107.6)ANSWERS:1. Palindrome2. Adirondacks3. Don't know, ask JP4. Yes, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy5. Yes, I did
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Sketches of Journalists and their Typewriters
Above and below: The Press, by William Papas (1964)Above and below: Fleet Street (1966)Neil Lade (self-portrait), The Canberra Times (1975)Above and below: Fleet Street (1966)Ink On My Fingers,...
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Henry Archibald Mintox's Laptop Messenger Typewriter: Oopsatoreum
Note the "smiley face" key Shaun Tan has digitally added to the far right end of the lower bank of the keyboard.The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has this Cheapside (Rimingtons, London) Blickensderfer...
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The Ginger Meggs Typewriter
Ginger Meggs is arguably Australia's most famous cartoon character. Nowadays our youngsters must rely on American creators for their cartoon heroes, such as Homer Simpson. Ginger Meggs was entirely...
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I Never Did Lose that Olivetti Lettera 32 Portable Typewriter
So touched was I by fellow Typospherian Jasper Lindell's comment the other day - that he was made to feel "nostalgic for Friday's Canberra Times when I looked forward to your column" - I have dug out...
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The Blickensderfer Typewriter Book
I think this was published about 1897-98, at the time of the launch of the Blick 7.The president himself, George Canfield Blickensderfer, seated left.
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How To Type Like A Man: The Typewriter as a 'Manly Tool for Conjuring New...
As Richard Polt wrote in his ETCetera review of Canadian cultural critic Darren Wershler-Henry's 2005 book The Iron Whim (download a PDF of the September 2007 issue with the review here), this...
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'Enemies of the People' With Typewriters
HOT WATER ATHEIGHT OF COLD WARIt's rare when a mere sporting event succeeds in conveying the full force of worldwide political tensions. But when blood filled the Olympic Games pool during a water polo...
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Typewriter Collecting in Australia 1986
This article appeared in the Australian Antique Trader Magazine issue of September-October 1986. It was kindly sent to me by Richard Amery in May 2008. (Sadly, the editor had run all the photos twice...
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Tsugi Kitahara: Miss Typewriter at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition
Who was Miss Tsugi Kitahara, who so proficiently demonstrated Remington typewriters with different language keyboards at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915?Her name is well known to...
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Typewriter Ephemera - Bits & Pieces, Odds & Ends
A lot of half-forgotten typewriter ephemera has been unearthed as the Australian Typewriter Museum continues to undergo an upheaval and things stored away for months and even years are rediscovered....
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Even More Typewriter Ribbon Tins
The museum tidy-up (see previous post) has uncovered more typewriter ribbon tins, which had sat stored in a box since the end of the two-month Typewriter Exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery,...
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Tiny Typewriters
Found along with more typewriter ribbon tins (see previous post) were these small typewriters, which missed out when I posted on the "Smallest Typewriter Collection" back in August last year. This...
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1000 Characters a Minute! The Karl Drais 'Typewriter'
As a way of pushing its products in Australia in the early 1950s, Olympia gave this portable to Sydney radio star Jack Davey - on the proviso he was photographed using it! Davey is seen here with his...
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