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- OBJECT TYPE
- TYPE-BAR/FRONT-STROKE/MANUAL
- DATE
- 1960–1969
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.0700.001
- MANUFACTURER
- OLYMPIA BUSINESS MACHINES CO. (CANADA) LTD.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, WORKING PARTS/ SYNTHETIC KEYS, PARTS/ RUBBER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 52.0 cm
- Width
- 42.0 cm
- Height
- 21.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Printing
- Category
- Typesetting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- OLYMPIA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Don Mills
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- LATE 1960'S TO LATE 1980'S
- Canada
-
TYPEWRITER USED BY CHARLES LYNCH (1919-1994), PROMINENT CANADIAN JOURNALIST & AUTHOR. HE REPORTED ON CANADIAN TROOPS IN WWII, WAR CRIME TRIALS AT NUREMBURG; WAS CHIEF OF SOUTHAM NEWS SERVICE & AFTER 1985 AUTHOR & FREELANCE COLUMNIST. - Function
-
A MACHINE FOR PRODUCING MECHANICALLY LETTERS, NUMBERS, & SIGNS SIMILAR TO THOSE PRODUCED BY PRINTER'S TYPE. - Technical
-
A 'STANDARD' TYPEWRITER, TYPICAL OF MANUAL TYPEWRITERS OF THE 1960'S, USED BY A JOURNALIST - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATE ON BACK READS: 'OLYMPIAWERKE A.G. WILHELMSHAVEN/ OLYMPIA BUSINESS MACHINES CO. (CANADA) LTD./ 58 Prince Andrew Place, Don Mills, Ontario/ Made in Canada'/ TYPED BYLINE LABEL TAPED TO CASING READS: 'MQ u20 u21 h12 h19/ SNS- Lynch column/ SOUTHAM COPY QS QB date/ Lynch column-The Nation-/ for Saturday/ BY CHARLES LYNCH/ OTTAWA- Prime Minister...'/ GREEN LABEL READS 'Q Office Analysts/ and Business Systems Limited/ OTTAWA-CANADA'/ BLUE PRESSURE PRINTED LABEL READS '1406903'/ BLACK & WHITE LETTERING ON KEYS
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TEXTURED GREY PAINTED BASE & BACK/ BUFF ENAMEL PAINTED CASING FRONT/ BUFF & GREEN KEYS & PARTS/ PLATED & METALLIC PARTS/ BLACK
- Decoration
- CAST 'OLYMPIA' IN SCRIPT ON FRONT & BACK
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OLYMPIA BUSINESS MACHINES CO. (CANADA) LTD., Typewriter, between 1960–1969, Artifact no. 1995.0700, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.0700.001/
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