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In Bed With Brendan Behan (and his Typewriter)
This illustration of a sozzled Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923-1964) is by noted Dublin artist Tom Mathews (1952-). It appeared with an article called "The Behan Legacy", by Joe Ambrose, in the In...
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Hermes Typewriters and Geneva Peace Talks
Hermes is considered a god of transitions and boundaries and as an emissary of the gods. Fittingly, perhaps, Hermes typewriters were the work tools of choice for journalists covering the mid-July 1955...
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Nippo P-200 Portable Typewriter Instruction Manual: For the Benefit of...
As requested by Nick Bodemer ...The Nippo Machine Company was founded by Jin Inoue in Yokohama in 1945 and in 1956 started making calculating machines and, using a similar model numbering pattern, a...
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My Typewriter Will Be Buried With Me: Harper Lee (A Good Scout)
In the postscript to a letter Harper Lee typed on this very day 20 years ago, she wrote:
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RIP Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher and semiotician. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the...
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England's Right Royal Embarrassment: The Prince of Wales and his Underwood...
Tally-ho! The Prince of Wales rides roughshod over royal sensitives, all for the sake of this wonderful (and worthy) little American-made Underwood portable typewriter:Owners of the first model (and...
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The Smartest Deal in Typewriter History - the $35 Million Bargain
In the late Spring of 1909, a group of well-dressed New Yorkers knocked on the door at 186 Greenwood Avenue, Brooklyn. They had an offer for the widow who lived there, 53-year-old Catherine Marcley...
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Why It Didn't Pay to be a Travelling Royal Typewriter Salesman: Effa and her...
John Thomas Whitehead (1876-) was an Englishman who in 1914 was the New York-based European sales manager for the Royal Typewriter Company (distributed through the Visible Writing Machine Company of...
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Triumphant Trumbo or Hideous Hedda?
No Oscar for Best Typewriting Performance was handed out last night at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Had there been one, Bryan Cranston would have romped it in,...
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Rare and Toy Typewriters For Sale
Desperately in need of money to feed the Typewriter Guard Cat (not to mention me) and to pay the bills, so I am selling some of my more cherished typewriters and toy typewriters. If anyone is...
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Build It And They Will Come: Typewriter Collector's Outlaws Outfield in the...
When avid typewriter collectorRay Nickson moved from Canberra to Armidale in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales in early April last year, to take up a position as lecturer in the School of...
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Reviving Remington Rand: The Typewriter Wars 1978-81 - The 101 v IBM...
The New York Times, May 20, 1980While researching the "end of days" for Remington typewriters this week, I was surprised to find that there was a brief "after-life" for a company which, as The New York...
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Hah! That's not a Newsroom. THIS is a Newsroom!
This wonderful image of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph newsroom in 1960 appeared with an excellent article by Dale Maharidge which appeared in The Nation on Wednesday. It's headed, "These Journalists...
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The Taupe Typewriter and the Yellow Van
Alex Jennings at his Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriter as the writing Alan Bennett (he also plays the caring Alan Bennett) in the movie The Lady in the Van.Typewriters in movies two weeks in...
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A-Y of Women and Typewriters
This blog turned five years old last week (February 27) and yesterday clocked up 2.2 million page views (averaging around 440,000 a year). That pans out at almost 37,000 page views a month, 8500 a week...
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The Centenary Typewriters (Almost) Forgot
The New York magazine once said of Rita Reif that "Even among the city's media prima donnas [she] seems to be a standout." Reif, The New York Times' long-standing arts and antiques columnist, certainly...
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Dust Off That Old Banger: A Pictorial History of Typewriter Collecting...
From the Jolly Juggler tothe Krazy Kat DrummerIn the Percy Smock Corneron his The Classic Typewriter Page, Richard Polt lists resources for the modern-day typewriter collector. Smock (real name...
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Oakland's American Venus and her $25,000 Underwood Portable Typewriter Promotion
The "Queen of Stenographers":How her typing skills saved thesanity of 1925's Miss AmericaThis bronze statue of Oakland's Fay Lanphier was sculpted by Howard Chandler Christy, a judge of the 1925 Miss...
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Dust Off That Old Banger: A Pictorial History of Typewriter Collecting...
Monte Calvert, far right, seen here as a college newspaper editor, had a life-long interest in the history of American mechanical engineering and a deep fascination with typewriters.Under-weird: From...
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Modern-Day Heroes: Typewriter Collectors, Historians and Enthusiasts of the...
A TOP 60These are just some of the typewriter collectors, historians and enthusiasts with whom I have had much contact over the past decade (at least the ones I have photographs of). Most, though not...
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