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Christmas Typewriters #17
Columbia Bar-Lock,Christmas a very long time agoHermes 2000 portableChristmas 1950Â Courtesy Georg SommereggerRemington-Rand Quiet-RiterChristmas 1957
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Typewriter Update
White Oz Christmas?According to the pushers at Pusher, this is what looking out the front window of this place on Christmas Day would reveal - if it was in the Northern Hemisphere, and if we were to...
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Christmas Typewriters #18
 Corona portables, Christmas 1934Patria potable, Christmas 1936 Courtesy Geog SommeregerCorona portable, Christmas 1927 Remington portables, Christmas 1938Corona portables, Christmas 1941
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Typing from the Beyond with Unseen Hands: How Quacks and Spooks Relieved Yost...
'What Fools These Mortals Be'I couldn't help myself. I was scrolling down my Facebook page yesterday and up popped one of those stupid "tests" that seem to proliferate on such intrusive sites. "How...
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Christmas Typewriters #19
Royal portable, Christmas 1929 Remington portable,one lovely Christmas Courtesy Peter WeilRoyal Futura and Signet,Christmas 1961Royal Safari, Christmas 1963
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Twain's Typewriters
This image of Mark Twain's Hammond typewriter appeared in American newspapers in early November 1938 as part of the widely syndicated Believe It Or Not --- By Ripleypanel. The drawing is of the Hammond...
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Christmas Typewriters #20
Hermes 2000 portable,Christmas 1948Courtesy Georg SommereggerOlivetti Lettera 22 portable,Christmas 1953Â Olivetti Lettera 22 portable,Christmas 1957Smith-Corona 5TE electric portable,Christmas 1957
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James Bartlett Hammond's 'Mystery Widow'
Jeannette Maxwell Hammond, the "mystery widow" of James Bartlett Hammond.A fortnight after James Bartlett Hammond, the multi-millionaire head of the Hammond Typewriter Company, died on his yacht off St...
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Oh, Mein Papa
My father, Wallace Newman MessengerAs a child, this time of year was always the most exciting. Our folks worked wonders to keep it so. They couldn't conjure snow, admittedly, but we still got that...
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Christmas Typewriters #21
Hermes Baby, Christmas 1941Hermes Baby, Christmas 1945These two courtesy of Georg SommereggerRoyal portable, Christmas 1949Smith-Corona portable, 1950Remington Quiet-Riter, Christmas 1957
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Christmas Typewriters #22
Corona 3 portable, Christmas 1925Courtesy Wim Van Rompuy Royal portable, Christmas 1941Smith-Corona portable,Christmas 1945 Smith-Corona portable,Christmas 1946 Royal portable, Christmas 1948 Royal...
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Christmas Typewriters #23
Smith-Corona portable,Christmas 1956Smith-Corona portable,Christmas 1957Olivetti Lettera 22, Christmas 1957Â Royal Futura, Christmas 1958Smith-Corona portables,Christmas 1962Smith-Corona...
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Christmas Typewriter Update
Miss Christmas TypewriterPiotr, the Prince of LightnessWhat a wonderful Christmas gift from Piotr Trumpiel in London - a calendar comprising 12 pages of images of Piotr's impressive collection of Groma...
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Christmas Typewriters #24
Royal Standard 1, Christmas 1909Corona 3 portable,Christmas 1918Corona 4, Christmas 1926Corona 4 portables,Christmas 1930Corona flattop, animal keyboard,Christmas 1935Remington portables, Christmas...
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Christmas Typewriters #25
 Hammond Multiplex,Christmas long ago Simplex, Christmasa very long time ago
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Summertime Blues
 'Spend Christmas skiing with mixed party in remote Scottish highlands':Aqualung, 'my friend'
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Bert, Bob and Boxing Day Bravado
Nerissa Ann LoveIt was just four weeks before the next big day in her short and happy life. Australian-born Wellington typist Nerissa Ann Love was looking forward to her 20th birthday, on January 22,...
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A Royal Christmas
Where the keytops glisten and Typospherians listenTo hear carriage bells in the glow- with apologies to Irving BerlinIt may not be quite as breathtaking as that snowflake in the Polish rain, Piotr's...
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RIP Rod Taylor (1930-2015)
A 1960 publicity shot for the TV series Hong KongAustralian-born actor Rod Taylor has died, four days short of his 85th birthday, following a heart attack in Los Angeles. Taylor appeared in more than...
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