Hall Index Typewriter
name: label: maker
content: Hall Typewriter Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Hall Typewriter was manufactured by the Hall Typewriter Company of New York, New York, beginning in 1881. Thomas Hall was awarded patent number 238,387 on March 1, 1881 for his Type Writer design. This is the New York variant of the Hall index typewriter. The company moved from New York to Salem in 1887, then Boston in 1889, and continued to produce a similar model in those locations. Index typewriters have no keyboard—the characters are selected by a pointer system. In the Hall index typewriter each hole on the grid corresponds to a character, pushing the key through the hole imprints the letter on the page and shifts the page over one space.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.214106
label: catalog number
content: 214106
label: accession number
content: 38759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Typewriter
label: Other Terms
content: Typewriter; Manual
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 9 in; 8.255 cm x 39.37 cm x 22.86 cm