Flickr Find | Writing Machines

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.Ernest Hemingway

At some point my obsession with Ernest Hemingway led to a love and appreciation of typewriters. Nothing is more pure then a typed letter on a manual type writer. I’m sure this fascination with type runs parallel to my affinity of natural, non-plastic materials. The Writing Machines group on Flickr has an interesting archive of different makes and models of manual typewriters. Some of my favorites are pictured below.

Hemingway at his typewriter covering the war in Europe July 15, 1944.

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My Remington typewriter in its case.

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Writing machines from Flickr.

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Image of Hemingway via Kurt Hutton / Getty Images. Other images from the Writing Machines Flickr pool.