Typists
Accession Number: 1985:0295:0044
Maker: Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940)
Title: Typists
Date: ca. 1915
Medium: negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film
Dimensions:
George Eastman House Collection
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That’s too many keys for a typewriter. Could these be early accounting machines?
I agree with vistavision. The color pattern of the keys especially makes it look like an early accounting typewriter. Here’s the link to a drawing of one from 1911
Here’s a link to a different exposure of this image. I agree it’s not a typewriter, albeit Hine took many photographs of typists and office workers.
Definitely a comptometer. There’s an image of something similar here. Also see here. Typists and comptometrists might be a better caption.
there’s no way that the date on this is correct. that was taken in the twenties.
The IT department wanted to get Macs, but management decided on PC.
I agree that it’s the ’20s. Two of the girls have Marcel waves, which became popular in the ’20s.
incredibly good
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That’s me in high school.
Yes, the same day trying to do on an APS-C and FF chuckle history?
This is awesome!