Fun to discover little things buried deep inside library archives: Here are two salesmen (from Remington and Densmore) fighting in to equip a new school with their typewriters, and a piano distributor doing the same…pic.twitter.com/8aouMDrObd
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Fun to discover little things buried deep inside library archives: Here are two salesmen (from Remington and Densmore) fighting in to equip a new school with their typewriters, and a piano distributor doing the same…pic.twitter.com/8aouMDrObd
…but the most interesting thing is not exactly what they say, but the meta realization that the typewriters are so young still – this is 1892 – that only the typewriter salespeople use typewriters. 
An (unrelated) shipment of typewriters! This is 1935, in Woodbury College in Los Angeles. What a great set of photos; love the crates. Source: http://cdm15799.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll170/id/58483 …pic.twitter.com/y5DaO9f1J1
Indeed! Just a completely incidental snapshot of day like every day in 1935’s L.A.
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