At The Typewriter

The long ago days of the typewriter...

From various institutions (but mostly LIFE). 

Carl Mydans, LIFE © Time Inc.

TIME correspondent Melville Jacoby at a candelit typewriter reporting on WWII. Probably Australia, 1942. Source

Lisa Larsen, LIFE © Time Inc.

A secretary at her typewriter, NYC, 1954. Source

Michael Rougier, LIFE © Time Inc.

Playwright Paddy Chayefsky with his typewriter at a garment factory (for some reason not given), 1954. Source

LIFE © Time Inc.

Journalist Ernie Pyle at the typewriter, 1944. Source

Robert Yarnell Richie,  Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library

A woman holding a typewriter ribbon, c. 1935. Source

Loomis Dean, LIFE © Time Inc.

Writer William S. Burroughs, Paris, 1959. Source

Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE © Time Inc.

Tennessee Williams, 1956. Source

© IWM (D 8792)

A British typist, 1942. Source

Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE © Time Inc.

Men of a bomber wing's intelligence department typing up combat reports, Algeria, 1943. Source

Walter Sanders, LIFE © Time Inc.

A woman modelling the desk and typewriter that come equipped with the new Cadillac model, NYC, 1956. Source

Hank Walker, LIFE © Time Inc.

Environmentalist Rachel Carson, US, 1952. Source

LIFE © Time Inc.

Ernest Hemingway standing at a typewriter, 1960. Source

James Whitmore, LIFE © Time Inc.

Writer Ralph Ellison at a typewriter at the American Academy in Italy, 1957. Source

LIFE © Time Inc.

TIME correspondent William Walton on D-Day, France, 1944. Source

Peter Stackpole, LIFE © Time Inc.

And of course, a raven at the typewriter (typing his own name, apparently). 1939. Source