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The Braxton Bragg Underwood Portable Tpewriter
Henceforth this little humdinger, which I have vowed to keep, will be known by me as the Braxton Bragg Underwood portable typewriter. I'm quite well aware that in the past 55 years, Braxton Bragg...
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Typewriter Update
Typer, typer, burning brightA few weeks ago I felt compelled to paraphrase the great Ogden Nash by commenting, "I think that I shall never get to see, an ETCetera cover lovely as a Royal McBee....
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Typewriters Forced to Tell Lies
Unlike Charles Bean's Corona 3 portable typewriter, now part of the World War I exhibitions in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, we know for certain that this 1912 Royal Standard No 5...
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Finishing the Smith-Corona 88 Restoration Job
I'm afraid I got sidetracked a week ago and didn't complete the series of posts on the restoration of the Smith-Corona Model 88 standard manual typewriter. By the way, Alan Seaver has a PDF of a manual...
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Ngaio Marsh's Google Doodle Typing GIF
Today's Google Doodle is a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of New Zealand writer Dame Ngaio Marsh. Ironically, while this is a "first" for a typing...
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End of The Canberra Times as we know it
Cool typewriting Jack left, computer-using Jack rightThe end of The Canberra Times as we know it (and have done for more than 40 years) arrived on Wednesday afternoon when editor-at-large Jack...
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Our Own Roll of Honour
A distant relative of mine, Commodore Henry Eagle, US Navy, whose father fought in the 1812 American War of Independence.Tomorrow marks the centenary of that day when the Australian and New Zealand...
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The Bard of Bunyah and his Brother Portable Typewriter
Australian poet Les Murray at his home in Bunyah with hisBrother Deluxe 762TR portable typewriter.The Troglodyte on thePrivacy of TypewritersBoth of Australia's leading poets and Nobel Prize contenders...
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Melbourne Print Museum Typewriters
Our man in Victoria, Michael Klein (occasional guest columnist with his Typewriter Technician recollections) has alerted me to a display of typewriters in Melbourne. It is at the Melbourne Museum of...
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The 'Australian Soldier' Who Killed Lord Kitchener: His Lover and His Typewriter
'Australian soldier Captain Claude Stoughton'promoting US World War I bonds.Australian passions have been inflamed. First, hundreds of thousands of them turned out at dawn services in various parts of...
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The Way We Were - With Typewriters
The outstanding British foreign correspondent Richard West died in Deal, Kent, on Saturday, aged 84. The Guardian, The Spectator and The Telegraph have run interesting obituaries - or, in the case of...
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Typewriters in the Führerbunker
Ingo Mersmann, owner and managing director of the German spy museum 'Top Secret' in Oberhausen in western Germany, sits at an Adler standard typewriter purported to have been used by Hitler's secretary...
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Louie, Louie, Mr Tambourine Man, Dylan and His Typewriter
Dylan on the Royal Caravan in the workspace above Cafe Espresso (59 Tannery Brook Road), Woodstock, New York, 1964.Driving home from university last evening, I heard Andrew Messenger deliver the news...
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Getting Gabriel García Márquez's Smith-Corona 5TE Ready For Exhibit
Consuelo Gaitan, left, National Library of Bogotá director, and curator Alejandra Padilla with Gabriel García Márquez's Smith-Corona 5TE electric portable typewriter at the National Library in...
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The 'Lady Edison' and her Typewriter
Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973) with her "Protograph", November 25, 1929.The "Protograph" attached to a Royal 10Beulah Louise Henry at the exposition of Women's Arts and Industriesat the Hotel Astor,...
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Odd Places To Put a Typewriter
Actor Clark Gable types in the back of a van in 1937.Berlin police study a crime scene and record their findings on a typewriter. A woman sits on a very wide carriage Remington in 1927.Zorro, a dog...
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RIP Ruth Rendell, Ravens and the Remington 315 Manual Portable Typewriter
There is, of course, no such typewriter as a Remington 315 portable. There is an Olivetti-made Underwood 315, a Dora masquerading under a different name. But the closest one might get to it among...
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The Intrepid Aviator, his Remington Portable Typewriter, and his Ship Dog...
Gunther Plüschow, his Remington Model 2 portable typewriter and his Hamburg ship dog Schnauf ("Puff" or "Breath") in Patagonia in 1928, on Plüschow's first trip to South America.Munich-born Gunther...
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50 Great Ladies, 47 Great Typewriters
Lithuanian-born German poet and illustrator Aldona Gustas photographed at her home in Berlin with her Hermes Baby portable typewriter in December 2011. (She seems to have an older typewriter in its...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Triumph
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Triumph 131f electric typewriter is one of the late great German filmmaker's items which have gone on display at the "Fassbinder - JETZT" exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in...
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