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Wednesday 2 October 2013

Oh, OK then. 50 Shades of Grey Typewriters Captions

Part I: 1. Iris Joyce, 19, 1942, British Women’s Land Army; 2. Joan Crawford, 1932; 3. Jean Ball, 1952, secretary International Ship Collectors’ Club; 4. Italian writer and journalist Wanda Bontá; 5. -; 6. Barbara Walters, 1965; 7. British actress Beryl Cooke; 8. 1945, unidentified secretary; 9. 1935, unidentified secretary; 10. Unidentified woman using Sholes & Glidden; 11. Lady Vera Terrington, 1922; 12. Unidentified secretary works on Sir Hall Caine’s Life of Christ, 1937; 13. 1935, unidentified secretary; 14. Stage actress Leonora Bonda, 1931; 15. French typing competition; 16. Yost ad 1901; 17. “Aida Reubens” (Mrs Jeffers) 1948;  18. Unidentified Monkey Club secretarial course, 1938; 19. 1938, unidentified typist; 20. 1930 Royal portable demonstration; 21. Miss Bampton, 1931; 22. Carole Lombard, 1938; 23. Unidentified typist; 24. Ann Lincoln, 1945; 25. Journalist Elizabeth May Craig, 1945; 26. Unidentified secretary types notes from astrologer Helene Paul, 1946; 27. Unidentified typist, 1935; 28. Ditto, 1930; 29. Ditto, 1950; 30. Ditto, 1940; 31. Mrs Pickens, WPA, 1937; 32. Unidentified typist, 1950; 33. Ditto; 34. Ditto; 35. Actress Harriett Hammond, 1925; 36. Unidentified typist, 1945; 37. Invoicing machine, 1930; 38. Unidentified typist, 1949; 39. Unidentified typist; 40. Unidentified typist, 1950; 41. Unidentified typist, 1949; 42. Unidentified typist, 1950; 43. Ditto; 44. Air raid defence exercise, Paris, 1935; 45. Unidentified typist, France, 1935; 46. Stenographer-typist, Paris, 1915; 47. Unidentified typist, 1950; 48. Unidentified golf writer, 1948; 49. Vicki Baum, 1925 (white Mignon); 50. Journalist and poet Amy Bonner, 1948.
Part II: 1. Lady Caroline, 1942; 2. Unidentified typist; 3. Mrs Henry R. Luce, 1942; 4. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1943; 5. Demonstrating music writer, 1937; 6. Silent screen heroine Constance Talmadge, 1925; 7. 1893 wood engraving; 8. Secretary forgot to wear her undies to work; 9. Unidentified typist; 10. Passenger, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1939; 11. Unidentified University of Missouri student, 1937; 12. Sheila John Daly typing (seated), 1949; 13. British actress Heather Thatcher, 1934; 14. British actress Dorothy Norse, 1926; 15. Continuity girl Joan Harcourt on a British film set, 1941, wearing an air raid helmet; 16. Unidentified typist, 1940; 17. Actress Olivia de Havilland in 1948 movie The Snake Pit;  18. Unidentified typist and boss, 1950; 19. War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, 1950; 20. Typists, Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, 1941; 21. Unidentified typists, France, turn of the century; 22. Happy typing girl artwork; 23. Bella Whitehead, 18, 1934; 24. Typing a movie script, Germany, 1945; 25. Secretary Phyllis Booth, England, 1945; 26. Typing class, Bryant School, New York City, 1906; 27. Unidentified typist, Europe, 1925; 28. Coin-operated Urania, Germany, 1930; 29. Unidentified US Coast Guard typist, 1948; 30. Remington Noiseless ad; 31. Unidentified typist; 32. Ditto; 33. French movie promotional shot; 34. Unidentified typist with cigarette; 35. Unidentified typist; 36. Ditto; 37. Agatha Christie; 38. Robotron factory worker, Germany, 1970s; 39. Columnist Elsa Maxwell; 40. Office workers, early 1950s; 41. Model at a Corona portable, 1937; 42. Unidentified typist, 1907; 43. English Art Nouveau Poster for Bar-Lock Typewriters; 44. Political journalist and commentator Dorothy Thompson Kopf married writer Sinclair Lewis in 1928 and Maxim Kopf in 1943; 45. Ayn Rand; 46. Unidentified typist; 47. Worker in Olivetti factory, Glasgow, early 1950s; 48. Gypsy Rose Lee; 49. -; 50. -.


1 comment:

  1. Very interesting. I had guessed correctly at a few and incorrectly at many many others.

    Thanks for posting the captions.

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