Oct 10, 2025
A professional Qwertyist hard at work.
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A professional Qwertyist hard at work.
Champion typists from 35 states competed in the 21st Annual Typewriting Championship at the National Business Show, October 16, 1926. The winner—the World's Professional Champion Typist—was Albert Tangora, standing at the right.
Photo: Underwood Archives via Fine Art America
Take a letter.
Teaching techniques. A girl types on a typewriter. A Braille manuscript is on the table next to her.
Perkins School for the Blind
Upside down M
Some typists working hard to make the deadline!
Work in progress shot for my second year film!
‘The Typists’ (1896).
Colour lithograph by René-Georges Hermann-Paul (French,1874–1940 ).
Published by Ambroise Vollard.
Image and text courtesy The Met.
But his smile went with him everywhere. The typists declared that he slept in it, and hand-washed it at weekends.
John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy