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Oh, what the quarantine has done to me.

Original advertisement — with landscape image in portrait mode — from the Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, Massachusetts), January 2, 1890 —

Revised (2020) —

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From The Cosmopolitan Shorthander (Toronto), June 1887 –

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In the early days of the typewriter, the machine was generally the domain of professional typists. That just any person could type was a reality yet to come.

From Shorthand and Typewriter, July 1900 –

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An interesting piece with some fairly accurate predictions:

From The Cosmopolitan Shorthander (Toronto), August 1887 –

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