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On July 10th, auctioneer Profiles in History, will have up for bid Ernest Hemingway’s green Halda typewriter.  Value estimated at up to $80000.
Someone please buy this for me!
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On July 10th, auctioneer Profiles in History, will have up for bid Ernest Hemingway’s green Halda typewriter.  Value estimated at up to $80000.

Someone please buy this for me!

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The father of the modern typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes, working on the Sholes & Glidden writing machine, c.1870.
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The father of the modern typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes, working on the Sholes & Glidden writing machine, c.1870.

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Here’s one I really, really, really want. It’s the first ever music-typewriter.  NocoBlick, c.1910.
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Here’s one I really, really, really want. It’s the first ever music-typewriter.  NocoBlick, c.1910.

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On rare occasions, like with this Mignon No.3 indexing typewriter, industrial designs that should fail, don’t.  See Mignon here…

On rare occasions, like with this Mignon No.3 indexing typewriter, industrial designs that should fail, don’t.  See Mignon here…

A lovely card table with a lovely Hermes 3000 Typewriter.  Don’t get married without one!
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A lovely card table with a lovely Hermes 3000 Typewriter.  Don’t get married without one!

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Woo-hoo!  Found another typewriter I’ve been hunting.  It’s a Postal No.5 manufactured here in Connecticut.
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Woo-hoo!  Found another typewriter I’ve been hunting.  It’s a Postal No.5 manufactured here in Connecticut.

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This is about as basic as a typewriter gets.  See the World No.2 Indexing Typewriter here…

This is about as basic as a typewriter gets.  See the World No.2 Indexing Typewriter here…

Playwright Tennessee Williams, with a Remington portable typewriter, in his youth.
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Playwright Tennessee Williams, with a Remington portable typewriter, in his youth.

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It’s called “Visible” because typists could not see what they were composing on earlier typewriters.  See it here…

It’s called “Visible” because typists could not see what they were composing on earlier typewriters.  See it here…

Actress Wendy McColm gives us her best “cat eyes” while a Smith-Corona typewriter lurks in the back.
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Actress Wendy McColm gives us her best “cat eyes” while a Smith-Corona typewriter lurks in the back.

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Underwood portable typewriter atop a desk and in front of the original Pinterest pin board.
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Underwood portable typewriter atop a desk and in front of the original Pinterest pin board.

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Photo-Manipulation of a woman on a Remington typewriter by 14-Year-Old Photographer “Fiddle Oak.”
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Photo-Manipulation of a woman on a Remington typewriter by 14-Year-Old Photographer “Fiddle Oak.”

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Is that an extended carriage or are you just happy to see me.  See this big Blick here…

Is that an extended carriage or are you just happy to see me.  See this big Blick here…

Michael Caine with typewriter as a foreign correspondent in The Quiet American, 2002
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Michael Caine with typewriter as a foreign correspondent in The Quiet American, 2002

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