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Advert for The Ford Typewriter. 1902
Typing PoolWomen working in a French typing pool
Stationery, Charles Ware & Sons, Sails, Tents and Blinds, High Street, Hull, Yorkshire. 1939
Typing Pool / 1970SA typing pool full of women typists
Pitmans School, Southampton Row, London - School Building of the famous Secretarial School, teaching secretarial skills such as shorthand and typing
Using typewriterThe Lion, a pharmacy at Landskrona, Sweden, 1953. Date: 1953
An early typing poolFrom the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women
Cartoon - sex before marriage?"You won't marry a man who snores in bed? But darling, how are you going to find out?" An interesting comment on the question of sex before marriage. Date: circa 1940
WW2 Valentines, Loves Me Knot!A WW2 Valentines greetings card, the illustration portrays a Royal Navy sailor typing a knot, the cherub Cupid points his arrow towards him. Date: circa 1940s
Advert, The Royal Bar-Lock typewriter, Her Majesty's Typewriter Makers Date: 1900
Advertisement for new Blickensderfer lightweight typewriter. Showing typewriter and extended keys. The typewriter was being offered with a week's free trial
Advert, Smith Premier, Three Typewriters in One. Date: 1907
Bill Wainwright, journalist and Communist Party memberWilliam (Bill) Wainwright (1908-2000), journalist, pamphleteer and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He became the CPGB Assistant Secretary in 1956
Comic postcard, Man and woman with typewriter in an office Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man trying to type a letter Date: 20th century
Russians wearing gas-masks in precaution of a chemical warfare attack, various scenes as people go about their daily work. Date: 1932
Early form of typewriter by Hall, USA 1885An early form of inexpensive, portable typewriter by Hall, USA. Date: 1885
Businessman dictating to secretary 1903Businessman dictating to secretary. Date: 1903
Typing pool, Ministry of Pensions, Westminster HouseTyping pool at the Ministry of Pensions, Westminster House, London
Advert for Royal Bar-Lock TypewriterAdvertisement for the Royal Bar-Lock Typewriter, showing Old Father Time driving it like a car. 1903
ROYAL TYPEWRITERA typist using a Royal manual typewriter. Date: 1930s
WOMENS TYPING OFFICEFrom the start, typing was perceived as the archetypal employment opportunity for women : this is the Typing Office of the Society for the Employment of Women Date: 1889
TYPING POOL, 1889The Type-writing Office young ladies find respectable employment in the Victorian precursor of the typing pool Date: 1889
Blind Typists - Royal Normal College, Upper NorwoodBlind Typists - Royal Normal College for the Blind, Westow Street, Upper Norwood, London. Taking down a telephone message in shorthand
Elizabeth Asquith at workElizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (1897-1945), later Princess Bibesco, English writer, daughter of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his second wife, Margot
Monotype keyboard operator at a printing worksMonotype Keyboards at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The operators readily surmount the problems posed by complicated mathmatical formulae or even composition in Arabic or Hebrew
Typing Pool 1960STypists working away at their electric typewriters in the company Typing Pool. Date: late 1960s
Suzy Menkes - editor of Cambridge Varsity magazineSuzy Menkes (born 1943), British journalist and lead fashion writer for the International Herald Tribune since 1988. Pictured here at the age of 22 as a third-year student at Newnham College
World Champion Typist - Albert TangoraAlbert Tangora (1903 1978) set the world speed record for sustained typing on a manual keyboard for one hour, 147 words per minute, on October 22, 1923
Boy on 80S ComputerA boy sits at a desk typing on his Commodore 64 keyboard. A printer, joystick and lamp sit on the desk. Two televisions and a strange model of a mushroom are in the background
Susi - with kitten and typewriter. 1950s
Susi - with manual typewriterSusi - standing on top of a manual typewriter, her back paws on the keys. 1950s
The Nose Game - Commercial Nose E2, Denotes Shrewdness. 1927
Air crash investigation, clerical staff at workAir crash investigation, three clerical staff at work in an office. Date: 1960s
Dail Mail / Typing StoryAn office at the Daily Mail showing a story being wired to Manchester for duplicating in the Manchester edition. Date: 1950 s
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett writing a despatch, Dardanelles, WW1Ellis Ashmead-Barlett (1881-1931), British war correspondent, pictured at his typewriter resting on ammunition boxes after the landing at Anafarta, writing a despatch
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), American author best known for Gone with the Wind, pictured hard at work at her typewriter. Date: 1937
Typewriting class 1895Lavender Hill Boarding School, typewriting class, 1895 Date: 1895
War Office letter to Mrs G G Ranstead, from the Director General of Mobilization, concerned the expected demobilisation of men who enlisted in 1914 and 1915. 11 June 1919
Computer operatorsA female operator checks the terminal of a large IBM computer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
New Worker - Fisher & Ludlows, TiptonA photograph taken for an advertisement for the Daily Mirror of the type of New Worker the paper was trying to attract into its readership
Poster advertising the Williams Typewriter, operated by a geisha in traditional dress
Various Titanic itemsVarious items from RMS Titanic, namely receipts for meals and typing, a headed letter card, a restaurant card, and a box of matches
Receipt and ticket from the TitanicA receipt for typing charges, a rebate for meals, and a Turkish Bath ticket stub from the ill-fated passenger liner Titanic
Learning to TypeA young woman learns to type at a secretarial school, on a massive manual machine
Typist of the TwentiesA typist of the twenties
Typing a Letter / 1960SA young woman wears her hair in a short, fashionable bouffant style typical of the 1960s. The sides and back are angular, with soft curls on the top
Reporters Room / MailThe reporters room at the Daily Mail showing journalists busy at their typewriters