From the library of Life Magazine images available for sale through an agreement with Google: “Marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, 1952.” Photo by Hank Walker. [Photo no longer available at that site; this is the same image, I believe]
This photo was taken about the time Carson left the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about the time her best-selling book The Sea Around Us was a hit. This was a decade before the publication of her most famous work, Silent Spring, and 12 years prior to her death from cancer in 1964.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Photo now displayed comes from a publication of the MIT Library: http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/150books/2011/05/21/1995/
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My first romance was with my very own IBM Selectric purchased at a church rummage with my toy money. Like Becky’s son I was about 8 and I loved that machine beyond reason. I eventually donated her to a cousin when I went through a quill and ink anti technology phase and now I feel sad at remembering her hum and punch. But beyond our love of the typewriter – how cool is Rachel Carson? I have a girl crush on her brilliance that will never fade. Nice posting :)
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One of these days when we find the back of our garage, there’s an electric Smith-Corona that saw me through college and an old, old Underwood. Don’t have any reason to still have them except nostalgia.
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Airports! I have this vision of some bureaucracy-handicapped TSA employee noting in a log that the thing “won’t boot up.”
I think the machines might be used to enhance education — if I could find some.
Glad you’re enjoying your typewriter.
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My eight-year-old has been fascinated by typewriters for the past year, since my husband’s aunt gave him her old electric. So for his birthday the other week, while we were visiting my parents in NYC, they gave him my grandmother’s old portable; my father sent it out for a cleaning and a new ribbon (much easier to find than for old electric ones). Since we’ve been back, he’s been hammering out his letter to Santa, and assorted other lists of things he needs.
But I never thought it would be so difficult to take a typewriter through security in airports. Most of the agents said, “What IS it?” and didn’t seem convinced when I told them it was my old-fangled laptop.
Thanks for all the pictures. He and I are enjoying them!
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