Type Writer Collection

LEGGY SECRETARY 1920 S
A leggy secretary sits by her typewriter and takes a letter, revealing her suspender in the process

Central Computer / Harwell
The Central Computer at Harwell serves over 600 users and has 200 typewriter terminals distributed around the site. This view shows the IBM 360/75

Yost Typewriter
Yost typewriter

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Underwood creates the new portable typewriter. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Your personal letters... write them on the Underwood portable. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Typewriter Keys / Fortune
Typewriter keys on the cover of a magazine

HANSENs TYPEWRITER / 1880
The remarkable typewriter invented by Rasmus Hans Malling Johan Hansen (1835 - 1890) in 1865, using a completely novel writing ball system

Caligraph typewriter
Advertisement for the Caligraph typewriter from The American Writing Machine Co. " A business house without a Caligraph is behind the times." Date: 1892

Grannie Typist
88-year-old Mrs Caroline Blore, using her own typewriter in her back garden

The forerunner of the modern type writer- a piano like machi
Photograph of a typewriter from 1851. This typewriter resembled a toy piano with black and white keys

Olivetti Advert 1928
An Olivetti typewriter is held aloft by Hermes, messenger of the gods and patron of the telecommunications industry

An early typing pool
From 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

Typewriters of 1909
Various models of typewriter obtainable from Harrods

Olivetti Advert 1932
The boss consults his watch - hes in a hurry for this report - but don t worry, signor, thanks to the Olivetti you gave her, your secretary will have it done in time

Remington Standard Typewriter No. 7
The Remington Standard Typewriter No. 7 -- an improved model

World Champion Typist - Albert Tangora
Albert 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

Blonde Typist 1960S
An attentive blonde typist or secretary, poised for dictation over the keyboard of her typewriter

Typewriting class 1895
Lavender Hill Boarding School, typewriting class, 1895 Date: 1895

Cuticura Soap advertisement
Business Girls Like Cuticura An advertisement for Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum, showing a young lady taking notes, with a typewriter in the background. Date: 11 July 1925

Typewriter, Ball & Chain
A typewriter with a ball and chain attached to it - a life sentence of office work! 1960s

Office Worker 1975
A female office worker, sitting at her desk, surrounded by box files and in trays, her typewriter beside her. Date: 1975

The $100, 000 Typewriter - 1728 times larger than the standard Underwood (weight 14 tons) - exhibited at the Underwood Exhibit, The Palace of Liberal Arts, The Panama-Pacific Exposition

Portable Typewriter
A portable typewriter in action. Date: circa 1950

Broadway Savings Bank, New York
Banks, Broadway Savings Bank. Broadway Savings Institution; people on sidewalk, adjacent buildings partly visible, including Underwood Typewriter building. Date: 1907

Computer operators
A female operator checks the terminal of a large IBM computer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

War Office at Wormwood Scrubs
A War Office filing clerk in his temporary office, a cell at the Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The prison was requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of war in 1939

Poster advertising the Williams Typewriter, operated by a geisha in traditional dress

Phone Message
A secretary writes down a phone message

Olympics Reporters 1936
The Press Box at the Berlin Olympics, 1936

Typing a Letter / 1960S
A 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

Dactyle Typewriter / 1896
A Dactyle typewriter

Advertisement for Corona Typewriter, DS Butler Ltd, Derby
Advertisement for Corona, The Queen of Portable Typewriters, Price Twelve Guineas, from sole local agent DS Butler Ltd, 37-39 London Road, Derby

Library Office 1947
A model of tidiness and application, this public library office is neatly and sparsely laid out; its female staff appear to be absorbed in their work

Weltblick Typewriter
Promotion for the Weltblick typewriter

Remington Typewriter
The Remington dominates the world !

TYPIST 1940S
A blonde typist rolls the paper up out of the typewriter as she checks a letter for errors

Soldiers Dog Mourns
A German Shepherd Dog lies above the grave of its master, a casualty of World War One

Girl with Olivetti
This typist is delighted with her new Olivetti typewriter - her colleague is delighted for her, but envious for herself

Dictating to Typist
A businessman smokes his cigar while he dictates to his typist

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