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Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez AKA Diego Rivera (December 8, 1888 - November 24, 1957) with Frida Kahlo in New York.

Jose Emilio Pacheco (January 30, 1939 - January 26, 2014): “I keep thinking that poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence, In a secret place between two people, Almost always between two strangers.”

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John Prine at his home in Nashville, RIP (10/10/46 – 4/7/20) Photo by David McClister

“Dean” of country songwriters, Harlan Howard

A very young Robert Allen Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan

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Underwood No.5 Typewriter - 1910′s Model

(I got to use this one. There is something oh, so satisfying about click clacking away on a typewriter. Especially the older ones.)

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Music Typewriters

Music typewriters were developed in the 19th century, but it wasn't until the mid 1900s that they became popular. Musicians usually specialized in using these machines. Several different models were invented, but there were two different concepts that became standard. The Keaton Music Typewriter looked very different from a regular typewriter. It had two keyboards, one which was moveable and one stationary. The other models were much like a regular typewriter. They employed musical symbols instead of letters. Staff paper or blank paper was slipped in the carriage and the keys struck. After the music was printed on a music typewriter, the original was photographed or copied to make the extra copies necessary to distribute and sell source