in this thread, I'll be tweeting rediscovered 1800s typewriter art, including a new set of oldest extant works—current record is this (1893)pic.twitter.com/gl1AC1egBt
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in this thread, I'll be tweeting rediscovered 1800s typewriter art, including a new set of oldest extant works—current record is this (1893)pic.twitter.com/gl1AC1egBt
sources call Stacey's 1898 butterfly (left) the second earliest example, but six of her works were published in an 1897 newspaper (right)pic.twitter.com/UcUM0q2wrL
in 1895, the Chicago Tribune held four contests for typewriter art and received many entries—here's winners from the two I could turn uppic.twitter.com/CI8kPjhh7I
this forgotten 1895 piece is by Frederick Carles—a pioneer of the form who doesn't get the nearly the amount of credit afforded to Staceypic.twitter.com/rXQbyhCrFu
an 1894 issue of The Phonographic World ran with this coverpic.twitter.com/PLvLqfjCip
it turns out that Stacey's 1897/1898 butterfly was actually first published in 1893, a few weeks after her "Santa Maria" first appearedpic.twitter.com/55kdeItWtV
between those two, Frederick Carles's portrait of Columbus appeared in the same publicationpic.twitter.com/yz0i9hvTLk
I thought these set a new record, but it turns out that @alexismadrigal already included them in this great article:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-lost-ancestors-of-ascii-art/283445/ …
so I had to go deeper—here's an anonymous 1892 work depicting a birdpic.twitter.com/xBi5RPCnj7
this 1892 bicyclist by T. F. Adams probably doesn't count, & if it does, it's predated by e.g. H. C. Dodge's work of 1883 (h/t C. Philippo)pic.twitter.com/g9EeRPHAQk
The one on the right seems typeset, not typewritten?
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