After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

I was born on the cusp of the transition from typewriter to computer. Some of my older friends would take typing classes during the summer break. Some of them even considered it a career option. Many ...

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I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

A typewriter that paints? Artist Tyree Callahan modified this 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to do just that, replacing each key with a different hue that can paint on paper. A chromatic ...

Last April, in front of a small storefront in Arlington, it became a common sight to see young people sitting on a bench, portable typewriters upon their knees. The old 20th-century sound of a ...

Tom Furrier, owner of Cambridge Typewriter. Photography by Nathan Bajar Tom Furrier still remembers his first day at the Cambridge Typewriter Company. He was 25 years old and his friend’s dad had ...

Tom Furrier greeted a customer walking through the door of Cambridge Typewriter, a tiny shop crammed wall to wall with old typewriters. The customer, Ron Lewis, had brought in a small portable ...