Coming across these postcards of Miss Mitchell and Miss Aldred, second prize and third prize respectively in the 1922 European Speed-Typing Contest (the Concours Européen de vitesse), inevitably I asked: but who won first prize?
The top right corner says that that the winner also used a Royal typewriter, but I haven't found the Royal-produced postcard celebrating her triumph.
I could ask if anyone out there knows who won (tell me here, please, if you do), but a more reasonable question would be: where can I go to find out?
The postcard collectors might know, but I'm going to start by searching in the French newspapers from 1922, available online via Gallica -I'll report back if I get news.
With the Autopsies Research group I share a love of dead objects such as typewriters (see e.g. here), and had cause to investigate the identity of a Royal typewriter when posting about Rohmer's film Triple Agent (see here). For that I had help from Richard Polt and his highly informative Classic Typewriter Page.
For typewriters in films, go to Kevin Ferguson's brilliant tumblr of Typewriters in Films.
These are my favourites from among the posts so far (because they also have maps in them, of course - I yam what I yam):
The top right corner says that that the winner also used a Royal typewriter, but I haven't found the Royal-produced postcard celebrating her triumph.
I could ask if anyone out there knows who won (tell me here, please, if you do), but a more reasonable question would be: where can I go to find out?
The postcard collectors might know, but I'm going to start by searching in the French newspapers from 1922, available online via Gallica -I'll report back if I get news.
With the Autopsies Research group I share a love of dead objects such as typewriters (see e.g. here), and had cause to investigate the identity of a Royal typewriter when posting about Rohmer's film Triple Agent (see here). For that I had help from Richard Polt and his highly informative Classic Typewriter Page.
For typewriters in films, go to Kevin Ferguson's brilliant tumblr of Typewriters in Films.
These are my favourites from among the posts so far (because they also have maps in them, of course - I yam what I yam):
The High and the Mighty (William Wellman 1954)
I Vampiri (Riccardo Freda & Mario Bava 1956)
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk 1957)
Les Yeux sans visage (Georges Franju 1959)
La Vampire nue (Jean Rollin 1970) - that is a map behind her, isn't it?
Short Night of Glass Dolls (Aldo Lado 1971)
Tenebre (Dario Argento 1982)
Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven 1984)
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