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• Humerus bag
• Jammu and Kashmir (India), excavated mammoth tusk and bones
  Excavated tusk and bones of ice-age mammoth near Sombur, Kashmir Valley
• Lisa Floading Interview by Blessing Uwisike (Transcript)
  Lisa Floading is a Milwaukee-area educator, writer, and typewriter collector, and the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In this interview, she discusses her collection of 63 mid-century portable typewriters, including models in her collection like those used by writers William Faulkner and Sylvia Plath. She discusses the benefits of typewriting for curbing perfectionism in creative writers, and about the necessity and pleasure of basic typewriter repair, including why you should never, ever try to disassemble a Swedish typewriter. She is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a UWM graduate student who also has long experience with manual typewriters.
• Lisa Floading Interviewed by Blessing Uwisike
  Lisa Floading is a Milwaukee-area educator, writer, and typewriter collector, and the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In this interview, she discusses her collection of 63 mid-century portable typewriters, including models in her collection like those used by writers William Faulkner and Sylvia Plath. She discusses the benefits of typewriting for curbing perfectionism in creative writers, and about the necessity and pleasure of basic typewriter repair, including why you should never, ever try to disassemble a Swedish typewriter. She is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a UWM graduate student who also has long experience with manual typewriters.
• Sholes House, 1042 E. Juneau Ave.
  A contemporary photograph of Sholes House, located at 1042 E. Juneau Ave., in Milwaukee. Note the different colors of brick on the side of the building, which faces west. When Charles Palmer renovated or reconstructed the building in 1932, it was expanded toward the street. Before Sholes sold the property in 1868, the building would have been just two stories tall and significantly more modest in appearance. It contains three separate apartments today.
• Judi Mucklin Interview by Blessing Uwisike (Transcript)
  Judi Mucklin is a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, and worked as a typing teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools from 1972 to 2011. She began and ended her career teaching business classes at Pulaski High School, and in between also taught at North Division High School and South Division High School. In this interview, Judi recalls the value of learning on a manual typewriter, notes the surprising benefits of typing for bilingual education, remembers a time when police officers were required to learn touch typing, and shares her own experiences learning from typing teacher and speed champion Cortez Peters. Judi is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Originally from Nigeria, Blessing also learned to type on a manual typewriter.
• Judi Mucklin Interview by Blessing Uwisike
  Judi Mucklin is a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, and worked as a typing teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools from 1972 to 2011. She began and ended her career teaching business classes at Pulaski High School, and in between also taught at North Division High School and South Division High School. In this interview, Judi recalls the value of learning on a manual typewriter, notes the surprising benefits of typing for bilingual education, remembers a time when police officers were required to learn touch typing, and shares her own experiences learning from typing teacher and speed champion Cortez Peters. Judi is interviewed by Blessing Uwisike, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Originally from Nigeria, Blessing also learned to type on a manual typewriter.
• QWERTY Quarterly, Issue 3, Winter 2023
  Issue 3 of QWERTY Quarterly, the official zine of QWERTYFest MKE.
• QWERTY Quarterly, Issue 2, Fall 2023
  Issue 2 of QWERTY Quarterly, the official zine of QWERTYFest MKE.
• QWERTY Quarterly, Issue 1, Summer 2023
  Issue 1 of QWERTY Quarterly, the official zine of QWERTYFest MKE.
• Christopher Latham Sholes Typewriter Co.
  After Sholes's death in 1890, his son Louis attempted to market his father's last typewriter design, known as the Sholes Visible, which was patented in 1891. Louis had little success, but the City Directory for 1894 confirms that the company had an office or storefront in the Old Insurance Building at the corner of E. Wisconsin Ave. and N. Broadway, so named because it was the original home of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. The building was later known as the Free Press Building, and was demolished in 1965.
• Elizabeth Andrews's Residence at 947 N. Van Buren St. (543 Van Buren) in 1883
  In 1883, the City Directory for Milwaukee listed a woman with the profession of "Type-Writer" for the first time. Elizabeth Andrews lived at this location at the southwest corner of what is today State St. and N. Van Buren St. At this point in the early 1880s, women made up only about ten percent of all secretaries. Fifty years later, they would amount to about ninety percent of all secretaries. Little else is known about Elizabeth Andrews, but in Milwaukee she was at the forefront of women's entry into the white-collar workforce, a development that would transform the American workplace in the twentieth century. The links below show what is likely the building where Andrews lived, a wood-frame mixed-use row building characteristic of the second half of the nineteenth century. The photograph at the first link is from the mid-1960s, by which time many wooden buildings of this age had been replaced by brick structures. In the 1880s, the downstairs would have been commercial space, and the upstairs residential. The two links to the Sanborn maps help confirm that this structure was there as early as 1894, and given its style, likely before that. In the 1894 map, the yellow color confirms that the building is wood, not masonry. The stairway at the rear leading to State St. corresponds with the boarded-up doorway on the photograph. The 1910 map confirms that the same buildings remained in place: the adjacent building added to the west, shown in pink to indicate its masonry construction (the brick foundation is visible in the photograph), has a bay window on State St., which is also visible in the photograph.
• Sholes/Palmer House Lot Blueprint
  Blueprint of the lot of the Charles Palmer-and presumably C.L. Sholes-house and apartment on Division Street by Eschweiler and Eschweiler Architects from Wisconsin Architectural Archives/Milwaukee Public Library
• Sholes/Palmer House Front Elevation Blueprint
  Blueprint of the front elevation of the Charles Palmer-and presumably C.L. Sholes-house on Division Street by Eschweiler and Eschweiler Architects from Wisconsin Architectural Archives/Milwaukee Public Library
• Sholes/Palmer House Addition Blueprint
  Blueprint of the original foundation and the planned addition of the Charles Palmer house on Division Street by Eschweiler and Eschweiler Architects from Wisconsin Architectural Archives/Milwaukee Public Library. Christopher Latham Sholes lived at this location from 1863 to 1867.
• Glidden 1871 residence on 10th
  Glidden's 1871-1876 residence as listed in 1871-1876 Milwaukee City Directories
• Carlos Glidden's Residence at 826 N. Cass St (492 Cass) from 1868-70
  Along with Christopher Latham Sholes and Samuel Soule, Carlos Glidden was one of the original collaborators working on the typewriter. Glidden was working on an agricultural spader (an alternative to a traditional plow) at Kleinsteuber's machine shop in 1867, while Sholes and Soule were working there on a machine to automatically number tickets or the pages in booklets. Glidden claimed to have originally suggested the idea of a creating a typewriter to the other two men, and although his later contributions seem to have been minimal, Glidden received one of ten shares in the enterprise after James Densmore backed it financially. As a result of his ownership stake, the first typewriters produced by the Remington Arms Co. in 1873 and sold in 1874 were called the "Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer." According to the Milwaukee city directory for 1868-1870, Glidden lived at this location during much of the time when he was working on the typewriter, and not far from Sholes's own home on today's Juneau Ave., where Sholes lived until 1868. The current apartment buildings on the site were constructed in 1926.
• Glidden 1866 residence on Prospect
  Glidden's 1866 residence as listed in 1866 Milwaukee City Directory
• Glidden 1863 residence on Franklin
  Glidden's 1863 residence as listed in 1863 Milwaukee City Directory
• Glidden 1862 residence on Water
  Glidden's 1862 residence as listed in 1862 Milwaukee City Directory
• C.L. Sholes's residence at 539 N. 18th St. (105 18th St.) in 1890
  Sholes's residence in 1890, the year of his death, as listed in the Milwaukee city directory.
• Sholes 1862 residence at Cass
  C.L. Sholes' 1862 residence as listed in 1862 Milwaukee City Directory
• C.L. Sholes's Residence at 1679 N. Humboldt Ave. (833 Racine)
  According to the Milwaukee city directories, Christopher Latham Sholes lived at this address from 1882 to 1889, the year before his death. The house he lived in has been replaced by more recently constructed apartment buildings on the same lot.
• C.L. Sholes's Residence at 1508 N. Astor (736 Astor) in 1880
  Christopher Latham Sholes's 1880 residence as listed in 1880 Milwaukee City Directory. The current structure on the lot is a recently constructed apartment building. Sholes lived in a single family residence facing N. Astor St.
• C.L. Sholes' 1872-77 Residence on Jackson
  C.L. Sholes' 1872-1877 residence as listed in 1872-1877 Milwaukee City Directories