Typewriter used by Elia Kazan
date: label: date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Royal Typewriter Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Typewriter used by Elia Kazan in the 1950s and 1960s. The Royal HH typewriter was likely used by the writer/director to write his books America America (1962) and The Arrangement (1967) and the screenplays for the films based on those books (1963 and 1969, respectively), as well as Kazan's other literary works and correspondence before his death in 2003. The typewriter has four rows of plastic keys and an enameled metal case.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Writing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0169.02
label: accession number
content: 2021.0169
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0169.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case and mechanical components material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (ribbon material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 14 in x 16 1/8 in; 21.59 cm x 35.56 cm x 40.9575 cm