Corona No. 3 Typewriter
date: label: date made
content: 1920 - 1929
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 Corona Typewriter Company of Groton, New York around 1920. The Corona Three was an extremely popular typewriter, produced from 1912 until 1941. This model has serial number 394384, dating it to 1920. 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: Ethel Zoda
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.326636
label: catalog number
content: 326636
label: accession number
content: 261574
label: serial number
content: 394384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: typewriter; Portable; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 12 in x 10 in; 11.43 cm x 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm