Book Details + Condition: Herkimer County Historical Society (Herkimer, NY). First Edition, 1923. Hardcover with lovely Art Deco image to front paste-down. 142 pages, and illustrated throughout with b&w images and photographs. A thorough early history of the invention of the typewriter and its development through the early 1920s. Frontis portrait shows an image of the inventor, with a chorus of "freed women" in their "economic emancipation". Chapters include: Early Efforts; The First Practical Typewriter; Seeking a Market; Launched on the Commercial World; High Spots in Typewriter Progress and How Women Achieved Economic Emancipation Through the Writing Machine. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; Herkimer Historical Society plate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
