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Tuberculosis Survivor Repairs Typewriters

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc...
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Milwaukee Women's Suffrage Office

Date: 06 1912
Description: Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of...
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Office Skills Class

Date: 1978
Description: Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters.
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Woman at Desk with Carpeted Wall and Floor

Date: 1970
Description: A woman wearing a red dress, brown shoes, and a beehive or bouffant hairstyle is sitting on a rolling chair with an adjustable back at a desk. She is comp...
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d...
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Robert Doyle at His Typewriter

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif...
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Five Girls at Desk

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Five girls at desk at Edgewood College.
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Louise Leighton

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Description: Louise Leighton poses sitting at her typewriter. She is wearing a dress, necklace, ring and an embroidered handkerchief in her pocket. The typewriter sits ...
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Bruce Barton

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Description: Bruce Barton, board chairman of Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising firm) in his office. Behind him is a large illustration of a street scene. T...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty

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Description: Portrait of Esther Van Wagoner Tufty sitting at a desk.
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Samuel Ornitz at typewriter

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Description: Writer Samuel Ornitz sits at a desk and has one arm resting on a typewriter. He has a book propped open on the desk which he is looking at. There are ful...
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Helen Ferguson at typewriter

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Description: Actress, now press agent, Helen Ferguson sits at a small folding table and types. A small telephone is next to the typewriter. Ferguson sits on a nice ch...

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