Standard Folding Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1906
name: label: maker
content: Standard Typewriting Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Standard Folding Typewriter was made by the Standard Typewriter Company of Groton, New York from around 1906 until 1912. The typewriter was made of aluminum and was relatively light weight, and was made to be portable by allowing the carriage to fold down onto the keyboard. The Standard Folding Typewriter was succeeded by the Corona Three folding typewriter.
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
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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: Corona Typewriter Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.308353
label: catalog number
content: 308353
label: accession number
content: 85488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Standard; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 9 in; 16.1925 cm x 27.305 cm x 22.86 cm