Typewriters Collection

Yost Typewriter
Yost typewriter

Yost Light Running Typewriter No. 15
A Yost Light Running Typewriter No.15. Date: 1910

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

Journalists Type Copy
Journalists at the Daily Mail type up copy

Using typewriter
The Lion, a pharmacy at Landskrona, Sweden, 1953. Date: 1953

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

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

Advert, Smith Premier, Three Typewriters in One. Date: 1907

Staff at work, office of Daily Worker newspaper, London
Staff at work in the office of the Daily Worker newspaper, 75 Farringdon Road, London. Seated are Rose Smith, Sam Russell, Monty Meth and (by the window) Ben Francis

Elm Court Blind School, London - Typewriting
Girls using typewriters at the London School Boards Elm Court School for the Blind, Tulse Hill. Date: circa 1903

Advert for Royal Bar-Lock Typewriter
Advertisement for the Royal Bar-Lock Typewriter, showing Old Father Time driving it like a car. 1903

ROYAL TYPEWRITER
A typist using a Royal manual typewriter. Date: 1930s

Early model of a Remington typewriter
An early model of a Remington typewriter. Date: 1877

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

The Staff of Father Nolan P. P. Moneyglass, Toomebridge
The Staff of Father Nolan P.P. Moneyglass, Toomebridge - an outside group photo of the priest and his mainly female staff, some sitting at tables with typewriters

Typing Pool 1960S
Typists working away at their electric typewriters in the company Typing Pool. Date: late 1960s

Procession in Central London
Aerial view of the Silver Jubilee procession in Central London, with flags and garlands. Date: 1935

Clarke & Davies, Museum Street, London. A shop where one could purchase the best photographs of the various Galleries of Europe

Air crash investigation, clerical staff at work
Air crash investigation, three clerical staff at work in an office. Date: 1960s

Bar-Lock Typewriter Ad
Advertisement implying that one Royal Bar-Lock typewriter will do the work of six pen- pushing clerks Date: 1890s

Early model of a Remington typewriter
An early model of a Remington typewriter, sitting on a table. Date: 1877

Women in an office, 1901
Two women in an office. One is seated at a desk with a map on the wall and a typewriter nearby while her visitor is interviewed. Date: 1901

Reporters writing up their stories at the Daily Chronicle
Reporters just back from public functions, meetings, fires, accidents and so forth are seen transcribing their copy for press at the offices of the Daily Chronicle

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

TV Studio Typists 1960S
Two typists at Southern Television studios. Date: 1960s

Female Office Worker
An office worker at her messy desk, surrounded by paperwork typewriters and telephones with wires which would make any Health and Safety departments hair stand on end! Date: 1960s

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

Learning to Type
A young woman learns to type at a secretarial school, on a massive manual machine

Typist of the Twenties
A typist of the twenties

Dactyle Typewriter / 1896
A Dactyle typewriter

Reporters Room / Mail
The reporters room at the Daily Mail showing journalists busy at their typewriters

Advertisement for Royal Typewriters, Ds Butler Ltd, Derby
Advertisement for Royal Typewriters, The Worlds Best Machine for Office Use. Sole local agent, DS Butler Ltd, 37-39 London Road, Derby

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

Weltblick Typewriter
Promotion for the Weltblick typewriter

Using an Underwood

Using Carbon Paper
A stenographer uses Polycarb carbon paper

Stenography from Above
Stenography depicted as a gift from the gods !

Remington Typewriter
The Remington dominates the world !

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

Using a Good Companion
This lady is using an Imperial Good Companion Model portable, which cost her nineteen pounds and fifteen shillings, including the carrying case

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