This old magazine advertisement features a Yost No. 4 Typewriter. The ad states that the Yost typewriter has recently had many improvements put on it which add to its convenience and capacity. The improvements include: better paper feed, an adjustable paper guide and improved line lock.
Here is a black and white clip art version of the typewriter from the ad.
The advertisement is from the Christmas 1896 issue of Harper’s New Monthly magazine.
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Oh this is lovely! It takes me back to learning to type on a manual typewriter (not as old as this one!) at school to the tune of the William Tell Overture and the teacher shouting “Carriage Return”! Does that make me ancient? Margie
LOL Margie! If that makes you ancient, it makes me ancient as well because I also first learned to type on a manual typewriter (also not one this old). Do you remember finding the center of the paper and lining it up in the right spot when winding it in to the typewriter for a perfectly centered document? And there was no “undo” or “backspace”. To make a mistake meant to start all over! 🙂
Oh yes – I remember it well and I worked in a court office so accuracy was very important! Do you remember the old Gestetner reproducing machines as well? Where you had to ink up the “skins” you’d typed and then turn a handle like fury to print out the documents? Happy days……. 🙂