via Thom Cholowski at Rebel Typewriter Workshop in Saskatoon,Saskatchewan, Canada at https://www.facebook.com/groups/typewritermaintenance/posts/4373364699567612/

Rules of Good Repair Practices:<br /> The Success of the repair depends upon the Rapairman's ability in following the rules of good repair practices. These rules can be summed up as follows:

1. Read the Service Bulletin thoroughly.
2. Know what you are looking for. Never guess. Always investigate the source of trouble. Ask, if you do not know.
3. Determine troubles by the process of elimination.
4. Every part, no matter how small, has a job to perform. Do not overlook the smallest detail.
5. Use the proper tool. Keep tools in efficient working order.
6. Carefully handle smooth, plated or bakelite parts to prevent damaging or scratching.
7. Make the repair like you would want it, if you were the customer.

via Tom Lucas (aka thetypewriterman), professional repair person at https://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?pid=32375#p32375

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4770669677/?multi_permalinks=10163215089874678

Description of journalist who had blurry typing because he bottomed out the keys rather than hit them like hot coals.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10162847550852775&set=p.10162847550852775&type=3

Olympia quality control sheets had sections for:<br /> - shift (Hh Hh Hh)<br /> - type specimen for all the characters<br /> - Black ribbon test in two lines of all characters<br /> - Red ribbon test in two lines of all characters<br /> - Stencil Test <br /> - Final Proof: "Olympia-Qualitaet findet in der ganzen Welt Anerkennung - sie verbuergt besseres Schreiben."<br /> - Line Spacing: the letter "m" at all settings<br /> - Back Spacer: "rrrrRRRR"

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1r6bjkm/require_help_to_identify_typeriter/

According to the label on this SGW typewriter there was a typewriter shop at

Typewriter City <br /> 121 W. Wilson Ave.<br /> Glendale, CA<br /> 246-7229

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1r04zy3/bob_dylan_his_olivetti_lettera_22_typewriter_1964/

Similar setting as one on Richard Polt's site, but clearer lighting and more angles here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163172812579678/

Underwood 5 appears in S3 E12 of Rizzoli & Isles

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qr703r/identification_help_needed/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qowfn2/mulder_is_a_fan/

X-Files (Fox), Season 2, Episode 4<br /> A poster for a Royal Ten appears on a wall behind Mulder.

"black bird fly...in to the the light of a dark black night"<br /> —Duane Jensen, as typed on a 1949 Smith-Corona Clipper S/N: #5C 101511 which, like a phoenix from the ashes, he'd brought back to life.

RIP Duane.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/olympiasg1/posts/1549224696395939/

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qh2cl7/1915_imperial_model_c_pictures/

per u/Koponewt:

Do you have the shift keys on both sides? The model C only has them on the left.

via https://sophsun1.tumblr.com/post/805029439375310848/misery-1990-dir-rob-reiner

https://sophsun1.tumblr.com/post/805029439375310848/misery-1990-dir-rob-reiner

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1q71z6k/ibm_selectric_i_spotted_on_one_of_the_maps_in_the/

https://alabut.com/photos/iwcsd2025/

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1pzo2fe/care_to_share_your_typewriter_set_ups_pictures/

Typewriter desks and workspaces

1952+ Newsroom at The Masters featuring dozens of Royal HH typewriters.

via https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1205955487563562&set=a.527768838715567

https://www.facebook.com/groups/327700488548372/?multi_permalinks=1549224696395939

https://www.theriaults.com/events/listing/14714/shirley-temples-personal-childhood-typewriter-with-inscription

Photo with at least 93 countable boxes visible...

Somewhat curious of the dates/times of the creation of these tabbed cards. Surely made in the 20th century, but since Warburg was likely creating notes in the late 1800s, where does this sit with respect to the invention of the tab card in 1894 claimed by Progressive Indexing and Filing (Remington Rand, 1950, p205)?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/12-7mmx920M-Black-Inked-Ribbon-Inked_1600231049141.html

Bulk manufacturer of typewriter ribbon

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWrYUPDsrv/?hl=en

Gloria Steinem was using a Memindex in 1960!

You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it's sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support. [38:33]

A real writer's typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.

https://mrmrsvintagetypewriters.com/en-us/products/chrome-plated-smith-corona-typewriter-part-of-david-rain-collection-tom-arden

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oouq6o/chrome_typewriters/

• Gorham silver-bodied Corona portables made for the Christmas season of 1931

Gold plated machines: - Royal Quiet De Luxes - Olympia SM3

Most of the rest of the machines out there were aftermarket cleaning and restoration related work.

Marketing:<br /> The Corona was one of a number that were plated in 24 K gold for a Luis Vuitton marketing campaign

Off-label uses for linewinders as typewriter ribbon winders?

• https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fishing-Line-Winder-Spooler-Aluminum-Alloy-Spooling-Station-Adjustable-Rotating-Axis-Steel-Frame-Clamp-Workbench-Fishing-Line-Spooler-Machine-Multipl/17084510284?classType=REGULAR
• https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fishing-Line-Spoolers-Adjustable-Fishing-Line-Winders-Spoolers-Machine-Spinnings-Baitcasting-Reel-Spooling/17886252799?classType=VARIANT
• https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apooke-Spinning-Reel-Fishing-Line-Fishingline-Winder-Equipment-Winder-Spooler-Machine-with-Suction-Cup-Fishing-Line-Spooler/5648376830?classType=REGULAR

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oincod/can_someone_tell_me_what_yearmodel_this_is/

https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/639938983220215828/1131197256691875881

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S5, E2

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/1nreyfx/letters_by_radio_science_and_invention_artist/

“Letters by radio”, Science and Invention, (Artist Unknown) 1922<br />

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o8lzdm/trying_to_id_a_typewriter_from_a_video_game/

Folklore (2007, PlayStation 3)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1098284832490290/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o8o98j/comment/njx2pgo/?context=1

Haul Out the Halloween (2025), Hallmark Movie

UPDATED Watch Woody Allen's Interview with Bill Maher: "Sunset Boulevard" (the Movie) is "Fun Junk," "Streetcar" is "Perfect" - Showbiz411<br /> by [[Roger Friedman]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:20:51

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o74l0c/hello_i_have_had_this_royal_qdl_1949_model/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o77cpz/made_my_own_service_booklet/

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nyozfk/what_are_these/

"Use Work-Organizers" advertisement, Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal, Toronto, October 1920, Vol XXXVI, No. 10, p70.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bookseller_Stationer_and_Office_Equipmen/toZQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dictaform%20meilicke&pg=RA9-PA70&printsec=frontcover

Photo of a work organizer for indexing/filing on both a desktop as well as within the desk drawer.

https://typewriterdatabase.com/show.26500.typewriter

https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/1-2-Replacement-Uninked-Typewriter-Ribbon-s/12848.htm

Uninked typewriter ribbon in silk, nylon, and cotton.

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ifi095/ribbon_comparison/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1kjam1u/ribbon_material_makes_a_big_difference/

Cotton versus nylon on an Olympia SM9

Finding a Typewriter's Serial Number<br /> by [[Robert Messenger]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-18T20:48:00

<br /> page from Wilf Beeching's Century of the Typewriter (1974 edition)

reply to u/BudgetSprinkles3689 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nkbw85/serial_number_location/

What is the purpose of a serial number? What does it do for you? There are serial numbers on things all around you; do you know where all of those are? The VIN number on your vehicle maybe?

People now are only using them to approximate manufacturing dates for fun, but they were generally only used by the factory or repair people to identify specific machines and/or tie issues after manufacture back to production line problems. Do they need to be easily accessed or visible for these purposes? The people who really need them generally know exactly where they are and how to find them.

Sometimes they're used to create inventories for owners or in cases of theft, but these generally aren't common uses that need high visibility. Because they can be removed or defaced, should they be put in easily findable and accessible places?

Generally they're stamped in at the factory during production on integral parts of the machine during assembly. As a result, they can often be hidden or covered up by parts (especially exterior panels and body styling) added later. If it's on an exterior, easy-to-remove part, what good is it?

If it helps, here's a diagram of some common locations:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steven-crowders-change-my-mind-campus-sign

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162426095474678/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1061582306160543/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/721704878218903/?multi_permalinks=2848334838889219

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nfvrpl/this_typewriter_comes_from_the_game_control_are/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nei42m/how_do_you_display_your_typewriters/

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505097692/antique-1921-meads-file-index-corrective<br /> Antique 1921 Mead's File Index Corrective Diets Infants Nursing Weight Charts Mead card index geared toward health of infants with details, nursing patterns, growth data, feeding data, case history, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ms74t0/typewriter_identification/

Reply to Joe Van Cleave at https://typewriterdatabase.com/show.21270.typewriter

It's probably a subtle difference, but is this machine provide the standard 6 lines per vertical inch or due to the taller ascenders/descenders is it a 4 lines per vertical inch machine?

If you need a "name" for this machine, I might suggest "Satchmo". In doing some research on Louis Armstrong's 5 series Smith Corona, I'm pretty sure his 5 series also had this same vertical script. None of the features on any of the photos I could find of his machine are subtle enough to distinguish which particular model of Smith-Corona he was using. If we find a good direct photo of the machine itself, I'm sure I could puzzle out which version he used. By 1955 he had at least one machine with a script face (see: https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/virtual-exhibits/my-fifty-fifth-birthday-celebration-happy-birthday-louis-armstrong/). It doesn't appear to be Smith-Corona's common Script (Artistic) No. 75 , but more like Script No. 46. Based on a version of this photo (https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2019/07/15/USAT/d815dddc-c0b8-4c54-b9b5-719886d4a0cc-02_Armstrong_Louis_16.jpg?width=1292&height=1320&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) it would seem that it's the Smith-Corona that was the script machine (as opposed to his earlier Remington).

According to Ted Munk's post on the S-C Vertical script: "Smith Corona is offering the [vertical] typeface as 'Script No. 46', 10 Pitch by 1954."

Joe's video of his 1952 Smith-Corona this with the same vertical script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6mwmoN_LI

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mo4wbg/what_typewriter/

Somewhat interesting that Louis Armstrong played cornet, wrote on a Smith-Corona, and lived in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, NY.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mnlq3k/my_collection/

Yellow IKEA Fabrikor

https://typewriterdatabase.com/1963-olympia-sg1.16258.typewriter

Wide feet for large platens on a heavy standard typewriter!

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mgqcof/put_some_new_lights_in_the_cabinet_today/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/artdeco1930/posts/10161193224076561/

http://brianrytel.com/envie-transatlantique/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lph9fh/sharing_our_new_typewriter_display/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ln38c4/current_writing_station/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1013993200919454/

Royal X typewriter in Tintin in America

https://books.google.com/books?id=HkYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=royal+quiet+deluxe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihtZfiksKNAxUskYkEHTWlFSwQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=royal%20quiet%20deluxe&f=false

https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/vintage-portable-manual-typewriters

The Smith-Coronas were offered in 4 different colors.

The Remington Quiet-Riter was eventually offered in white sand, desert sage, mist green, and French gray,

The Royal HH was offered in 6 colors including green, pink, and blue. Brown was the most ubiquitous.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lgxcyj/turning_my_typewriters_into_transformers_using/

Clever, albeit AI

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lht2qv/on_display_with_an_invitation_of_use/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1la2zyw/jack_webb_from_dragnet/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1l6q35q/remington_typewriter_co_band_postcard_1926/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1l03oxd/stephentown_typewriter/

<br /> via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e906fe0-3ec5-0137-4dbb-05753e085b4b

Illustration by Beppe Giacobbe

Harper's Magazine, April 2022, page 26 https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=typewriter&sp=1&st=gallery

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kansasexplorer3128/4586829808

Pottawatomie County, KS

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/side-profile-of-traditional-wooden-library-card-royalty-free-image/1374216041?searchscope=image%2Cfilm

Another fun photo of "linked" strings wrapped around a library card catalog representing the links between ideas within a paper database.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/traditional-wooden-library-card-catalog-cabinet-royalty-free-image/1379469553?searchscope=image%2Cfilm

fun photo of "linked" strings wrapped around a library card catalog representing the links between ideas within a paper database.

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https://www.bygonely.com/typing-classes-20th-century/

https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/nabokov.jpeg via https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html

This photo, similar to others in the Carl Mydans series for LIFE Magazine is surely from his September 1958 photo series, though I couldn't find an original from the LIFE archive.

Nabokov, reading off of index cards in his zettelkasten, dictates to his wife Vera who is typing on what appears to be a 1949 or 1950 Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter.

Notice metal strip on the back of the typewriter with small rectangular blocks. This is the Royal's tabulator set up which distinguishes the Quiet De Luxe model from the Arrow model.

The body styling of this typewriter changed in 1950 from Dreyfuss' original 1948 design. Because it's light gray it has to be from '49 or '50 as the '48 original was a black body with dark gray highlights and didn't have chrome across the front as this one does in an alternate angle.

https://images.google.com/hosted/life/2bff56953d14c9d9.html

Nabokov, reflected in a mirror off camera, dictating his writing from index cards to his wife Vera who is typing on what appears to be a 1949 or 1950 Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter.

Notice the chrome on the front of the machine which is sitting in its bottom case shell.

https://images.google.com/hosted/life/c835f121c2b6ce79.html

Nabokov dictating his writing from index cards to his wife Vera who is typing on what appears to be a 1949 or 1950 Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter.

https://images.google.com/hosted/life/8d0b2f02ac27973e.html

Nabokov dictating his writing from index cards to his wife Vera who is typing on what appears to be a 1949 or 1950 Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter.

Alternate angle at http://images.google.com/hosted/life/81b7b3f24bbe1b3a.html

Nabokov used index cards for his research and writing. In one index card for research on Lolita, he creates a "weight-heigh-age table for girls of school age" to be able to specify Lolita's measurements. He also researched the Colt catalog of 1940 to get gun specifications to make those small points realistic in his writing.

syndication link

https://type-in.org/

Rolodex Item #67380 https://www.ebay.com/itm/166733559184

You have to appreciate the way that this zettelkasten is designed to be decorative and include personal family photos almost as a representation of what it directly contains.

Caption: A small rolodex file in grey and black plastic with a picture frame on the front with space for a small photo, in this case either a picture of a young child or a family dog

How to have an inbox in Apple Photos?

Bought a photo printer so he could include images and photos in his zettelkasten

Kasparyan's zettelkasten consists of 24 wooden boxes and at least two plastic trays of cards. The trays are numbered and the highest numbered tray has the number 34 on it.

In the picture are two plastic trays, but it's not obvious how big they are or how many cards they may contain.

Approximating that these would contain about 1,200 cards each, the collection is likely between 28,800 and 40,800 cards.

✅ https://t.co/5nGvHBm5Vo<br>Today I made a video about Henrik Kasparian's chess puzzle database which includes 30 thousand chess puzzles! In the precomputer era Kasparian used index cards to select everything in one place, and it took him decades to complete!#chess #chesspuzzle pic.twitter.com/V1H2PMKfjN

— Suren (@surenaghabek) August 3, 2020

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