The assembly floor.
The Salesman, a California magazine, offered a wonderful series of photographs of the L.C. Smith & Bros. typewriter factory in 1910. The article, which can be found here, is mostly fluff, though.
Machinery for making typewriter bearings.
Automatic screw cutting machines.
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The Houston Typewriter Exchange was founded in 1906, and operated through at least the 1980s.1 Of course, by the 1980s the company was selling electric typewriters and calculators with memory chips and word processing capabilities.
From The Houston Dispatch (link), December 16, 1923:
Houston Has Only Typewriter Rebuilding Plant In South
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Even the the 1890s, the Sholes & Glidden typewriter seemed antique!
The London Phonographer (London), October 1892 –
John T. Gerry died in 1893.1
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Female cyclist, late 19th century.
The Cleveland Press (Cleveland, Ohio), July 27, 1895 –
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