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The Lady with the Serpent Typewriter
This is an image of the envious and socially ambitious New Jersey housewife Mrs Anna Johnson Dunn Pollard, a mother of two young daughters and herself a "Daughter of the American Revolution", who in...
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Cheer Up and Smile: The Drunkard's Friend and the Bijou Portable Typewriter
It is always a delight to discover the provenance of a typewriter. That enchantment, it seems, is all the more heightened when the discovery is made by sheer chance, many years after having been given...
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Colour My World
A collection of colour typewriter images from around the world. I gathered them for no other reason than they appealed to me, and gave me my own ideas:
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The flower wilts, the fern rises
The former British Olivetti Typewriter Company factory in Glasgow, built at a time, immediately after Word War II, when the British Government actively fostered foreign investment and economic growth...
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Typewriters and Certainties: A Short Salute to Van Quine
From A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind, by Roy Sorensen, professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College.In Van Quine's obituary, written by Christopher...
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Cypher and Telegraphic Typewriters: Two 'Odd Fish' from New Zealand
New Zealand's telegraphic typewriter inventor Donald Murray:New Zealand Free Lance (Auckland), March 14, 1914New Zealand's cypher typewriter inventor Morgan Cyprian McMahon O'Brien:"Britain's 'Enigma'"...
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Apocalypse Now Typewriter
In one of the added scenes, Willard is kept in a metal shipping container called a "Conex", while Kurtz, surrounded by children, sits outside the doors and reads several Time Magazine articles...
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A Writer and His, Umm, Typewriter
Boston Globe correspondent Eugenia Williamson paid a visit to writer Ben Mezrich in his office earlier this month. The Globe's Essdras M. Suarez took this photo of "some details of Mezrich's working...
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Typing the blinkers off Sea-Blindness
"[Ray Parkin's Prisoner of War] writings have a Homeric quality, not in the sense of celebrating battlefield virtuosity, but in their poetic largeness of spirit, in their refusal to peddle shibboleths...
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King Bill of Mexico
Was a national day of mourning declared in Mexico on Thursday, December 11, 1958, the day its former "king", William Archer Parker, died in Waco, Texas, at the ripe old age of 88?Well no, actually....
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Mexicano Musicwriter
Note how the typeslugs have been cut in such a way so the larger notes can fit snugly together in the typebasket.On the evening of my typewriter Pecha Kucha presentation during the Zine Festival back...
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Katharine Susannah Prichard's Remington Portable Typewriter
'I think that I know thoroughly every phase of life in Australia I write of; that I absorb the life of our people and country with love and an intense and intimate sympathy; I strive to express myself...
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Bennetts in Australia: Tree Kangaroos and Typewriters, Small and Rare Species
Bennett's tree-kangaroos are very small by comparison with terrestrial kangaroos. A large red kangaroo can stand as tall as Richard Polt (6ft 7in) and weigh 200lbs. Male Bennett's tree-kangaroos weigh...
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Helen Garner and her Corona 3 Portable Typewriter
Helen Garner with her beloved Corona.This article appeared in the Melbourne Age Spectrum liftout this morning:Clack of typewriters captivates authors"When we were young the keys struck the paper with...
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The Hermes 305 Portable Typewriter and its Olympia, Japy and Nakajima Siblings
Yes, you spotted it. It's a Nakajima identical twin sister for Nick Beland's Olympia B12 - with, I suspect, all the same drawbacks, including the serious plastic mask discolouring. The original colour...
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Bikinis, Bert Lance, Etc
Across the Tasman in good ol' conservative New Zealand, a technology magazine is in hot water today for promoting its wares with bikini-clad lasses at an expo in Auckland. God forbid that any of our...
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Typewriter Update
I'd only just mentioned Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a blog post last week - in relation to golf champion and course designer Max Howell Behr overseeing the manufacture of the Bennett typewriter by...
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How a Remington Junior Typewriter got from Adelaide to the Aegean and Back in...
This later model Remington Junior, serial number JP60237 (made January 1916) was donated to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney by Chartres in 1939.It's a long story. A Remington Junior typewriter, sold...
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Olivetti Lettera 35 Portable Typewriter and Manual
Picked up typewriter, case and manual for a song at a recycling centre today. Too hard to resist. The colour is wheat, by the way, not taupe.
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