Men snickered when they heard of ‘a woman typewriter’

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1. Lillian Sholes: Not necessarily the “first typewriter girl” Touted as the "first typewriter girl," Lillian Sholes was much more. According to collector Peter Weil, Sholes aided her father in the design of the...
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