
Category Archives: Tools
Smiling Woman with Candlestick Telephone

Description | English: Woman holding candlestick telephone |
Date | 1923 |
Source | Advertisement for Listerine in Shadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland07brew/page/n387/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Underwood Standard Typewriter No. 5

Description | English: Color illustration of an Underwood No. 5 typewriter, from an advertisement for Shipman-Ward refurbished typewriters |
Date | 1924 |
Source | Advertisement in Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n487/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Mortar and Pestle
Description | English: Stock cut from an American Type Founders specimen book, 1897 |
Date | 1897 |
Source | American Type Founders Company specimen book (https://archive.org/details/specimensoftypeb00amer/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Mr. S. R. Crockett

Description | English: S. R. Crockett writing at a desk, with a Hammond typewriter to his right |
Date | 1895 |
Source | Cassell’s Family Magazine (https://archive.org/details/cfm-1895/page/359/mode/2up) |
Author | John Moffatt |
Miss Remington

Description | English: Miss Remington tells how the typist can help win the war |
Date | 1918 |
Source | Remington Notes (https://archive.org/details/RemingtonNotesV04N07May1918/page/n1/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Duplicating Machine

Description | English: Schlicht & Field Co. Rapid Roller Damp Leaf Copier in use |
Date | 1887 |
Source | Schlicht and Field Co. catalogue (https://archive.org/details/cataloguelabors00schl/page/50/mode/2up) |
Author | Signed “Higinbotham” |
Telephone Memo Pad
Description | English: Memo pad attached to candlestick telephone |
Date | 1912 |
Source | Frank A. Weeks Mfg. Co. catalogue (https://archive.org/details/inkstandsstation00fran/page/94/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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Happy Vacuumer

Description | English: Woman vacuums with effortless ease |
Date | 1921 |
Source | Farmer’s Magazine (https://archive.org/details/farmersmagazine1921toro/page/n55/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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Man Talking on Candlestick Telephone
Description | English: Advertising cut of a man speaking on a candlestick telephone |
Date | 1921 |
Source | Printer and Publisher (https://archive.org/details/canprinterpublish1921toro/page/n211/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
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