Corona No. 3 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1923 - 1925
name: label: maker
content: Corona Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description
content: This Corona typewriter was manufactured by the Corona Typewriter Company, Inc. of Groton, New York sometime around 1923-1925. The typewriter is a front-striking model with a three row QWERTY keyboard, likely the Corona No. 3 although it lacks the “3” numbering on the frame below the spacebar. The Standard Typewriting Company began producing a folding model of typewriter in Groton around 1907.
label: Description
content: The success of the Standard Typewriter Company’s Corona model typewriter prompted the company to change its named to the Corona Typewriting Company in 1914. In 1926 the company joined with the L. C. Smith & Brothers Typewriting company 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: Immaculata School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.336759
label: catalog number
content: 336759
label: accession number
content: 1978.2479
label: serial number
content: 590430
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Portable; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 11 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 29.21 cm x 24.13 cm