Typewriter of the moment: Birthday boy William Faulkner
William Faulkner at his typewriter, August 12, 1954, at his home in Oxford, Mississippi. Associated Press photo. The photo was probably posed; the two books to the left of the typewriter are Faulkner...
View ArticleTypewriter Day 2016, June 23: Click away!
Some wags designated June 23 as Typewriter Day — the anniversary of the date the typewriter was first patented by Christopher Sholes. Links below can get us into position to commemorate the day...
View ArticleFor Typewriter Day, June 23, the typewriter archives at Millard Fillmore’s...
We’ve featured some nice and influential machines here, over the years. For Typewriter Day 2016, a list of some of those features. Typewriters of the Moment: William Faulkner Film director Billy Wilder...
View ArticleRemember Helen Keller on her birthday 2016
Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880. Jimmy Carter designated her birthday National Helen Keller Day, in 1980. Twitter’s catching up with the celebration. Are you? For Helen Keller's birthday, the...
View ArticleTypewriter of the moment, and cold: Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Even in the Antarctic, scientists and explorers need to write their findings down. A typewriter was the state-of-the-art tool in 1911. Here we see Apsley Cherry-Garrard with his typewriter, on...
View ArticleTypewriter of the moment: Milan Karanovic, Bosnian ethnographer
Ethnographer? It’s a person who makes a systematic study of a people and its culture, a subdivision of anthropology, sociology, history and geography all at once. Milan Karanovic, trained as a priest,...
View ArticleRemember Helen Keller on her birthday, June 27
If it’s June 27, it’s National Helen Keller Day. Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880. Jimmy Carter designated her birthday National Helen Keller Day, in 1980. Twitter’s catching up with the...
View ArticleBoston Typewriter Orchestra. Is that a thing?
Seems to be. I note they use non-typewriter bells instead of the return bell on the typewriter. Bells fell out of favor with later electrics. Is that a problem? Do activities like this preserve the...
View ArticleGlorious thread on typewriters and their masters
From Dean Frey, posting on Twitter as “Deny Fear @dean_frey.” Frey posted this wonderful picture of Rachel Carson, taken by Erich Hartmann in 1962 (after publication of Silent Spring?) But hold your...
View ArticleTypewriter of the moment: Stevie Wonder’s Underwood
I actually ran into Ray Charles once, in the Concorde Lounge at Dulles Airport, back in the days when one could accompany friends to the gates. Charles was famous for singing and leading a great band,...
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