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One Hermann Hesse Typewriter Leads to Another
I'm absolutely hopeless at translating German to English, so whether or not the last paragraph of Ernst Martin's eight-page entry on Karl Drais (see previous post) refers to Hermann Hesse I cannot be...
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Favourite US Typewriter Shop
After his exhaustive Google Street View search for typewriter shops across the US, Richard Polt is now running an interesting contest here.There are, by my count, 104 typewriter shops to pick from. Of...
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Selling Typewriters in Siberia
Now fast-forward 94 years:They would have better off sticking to typewriters ...
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'Cross America on a Dime'
This wonderful photograph of 18-year-old Harvey Dyar Haddard was taken in the publicity department of the World's Fair in New York in mid-June 1940. Harvey had graduated from the Schuylkill Haven High...
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How 'Typewriter Topics' Gave James B. Hammond the Kiss of Death
Typewriter Topics made this comment in its September 1910 issue. Its claim was soon disputed:Avery had a point, though Hammond had run his own typewriter company from day one. Brown was born on...
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'International Typewriter Man'
Johan Carl Wilhelm ("Charles William") Bechshøft (1859-) travelled extensively between his home in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen in Denmark, and New York between 1906-1925, invariably on typewriter...
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Edward Manning and the Court Battles Between the Underwood 5 and the Royal 10
Richard Polt CollectionmyTypewriter.comOthers will no doubt beg to differ, but in my opinion the Underwood 5 and the Royal 10 represent the all-time benchmarks in standard-size typewriters. For one...
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Why Did the Australian Government Put Remington Typewriters on the 'Enemy List'?
A week before Christmas in 1915, many Australians were stunned to learn that the American typewriter manufacturers Remington had been declared an "enemy company" by the Australian Government under...
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James B. Hammond's Last Trip
Since he's a typewriter history hero of my great friend Richard Polt, and since Typewriter Topics saw fit to run it more than three years after James Bartlett Hammond ("one of the first and last...
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A Typewriting Writer 'In the Family'
I'd already discovered a few skeletons in the family closet and had hoped to uncover at least one writer in there, too. Preferably a typewriting one. So my heart skipped a beat the other day when I...
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Queen Who Shared Her Typewriter Favours Around
Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise zu Wied (1843-1916), the Queen consort of Romania (as the wife of King Carol I) and widely known by her literary name of Carmen Sylva, is unquestionably the most famous...
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Anderson Automatic Carriage Return for Underwood Typewriters
We've featured some pretty weird looking variations of Underwood standard typewriters in the past few days, but has anyone ever seen any of these machines? And in particular, has anyone ever seen one...
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900,000 Up, 100,000 To Go
This blog was 35 months old yesterday and today it chalked up 900,000 page views. It averages about 1400-1500 page views a day, but sometimes gets up to 2000. It has 1424 posts, 122 followers and has...
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Machines à écrire et de Secours: Nina Larrey Smith Duryea in France 1914-17
I came across this item in the Typewriter Topics edition of September 1916 and started looking into the life of Nina Larrey Smith Duryea (1869-1951). Hers is a fascinating story, yet again one that has...
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RIP Pete Seeger, a True Hero
Pete Seeger at a typewriter, Newport Folk Festival, 1963.Pete Seeger, born May 3, 1919, Patterson, New York; died January 27, 2014, New York City, at the age of 94. Pete Seeger was one of the truly...
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