The Virtual Typewriter Museum!

There is actually a Virtual Typewriter Museum for manual typewriters from the late 1800s to early 1900s!  I stumbled across it while searching for the manufacturer of the antique typewriter (probably from the 1960s or 70s) here in my office at work.  It is an "Adler"--a company I had never heard of from "West Germany."

Typewriters found in old slide collections in Art Departments Everywhere had really tiny type ("pika 7" or something like that).  They were specifically made for typing on tiny labels for filing things (like 35mm slides that professors used in classes).

The on-line exhibition format for the Virtual Typewriter Museum is pretty neat, too (not as cool as the Computer History Museum, but...).  I like the way you can type on faux typewriter keys in the "brands" area.