Corona No. 3 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1924 - 1926
name: label: maker
content: L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Corona Three folding typewriter that was manufactured by the Corona Typewriter Company of Groton, New York around 1930. The Corona Three was an extremely popular typewriter, produced from 1912 until 1941. This model has serial number 650136, dating it to 1930. This typewriter’s platen and carriage can fold down to rest on the keyboard, allowing it to become compact and portable.
label: Description
content: The success of the Standard Typewriter Company’s Corona Three model typewriter prompted the company to change its name to the Corona Typewriting Company in 1914. In 1926 the company joined with the L. C. Smith & Brothers Typewriting company in to become Smith-Corona. Smith-Corona manufactured typewriters and typewriter accessories throughout the 20th century, becoming Smith Corona Marchant in 1958. After two bankruptcies, Smith Corona returned to operation in 2010 as a thermal paper manufacturing company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Groton
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Ginovsky in memory of Mary J. Ginovsky
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.330702
label: catalog number
content: 330702
label: accession number
content: 296465
label: serial number
content: x650136
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Portable; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 31.115 cm x 24.765 cm