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Manuals

Except where noted, all manuals are in PDF format.

• Adler J2 & J4
• Adler Special (service manual)
• Bar-Let Model 2 [x]
• Blickensderfer No.8 [x]
• Brother Opus 889
• Burroughs Model 50 (service manual)
• Burroughs Model 60 (electric) (service manual)
• Burroughs Models 50 & 60 (reference manual)
• Commodore Educator
• Commercial Visible No.6 [1]
• Corona 3 (External site.)
• Corona Four
• Crown Index (JPG) [1]
• Emerson [x]
• Gourland (sales brochure) [x]
• Hermes Baby [x]
• Hermes 2000 [4]
• Hermes 3000 [x]
• Hermes Rocket
• IBM Model 01 (Customer Engineer service manual. External site.)
• IBM Model B4 (Customer Engineer service manual.) [6]
• IBM Model C1 (Customer Engineer service manual.) [6]
• IBM Model C4&5 (Customer Engineer service manual.) [6]
• IBM Selectric I-III Troubleshooting (External site.)
• IBM Selectric II
• IBM Selectric 72 (Customer Engineer service manual. External site.)
• Imperial 66 [7]
• L.C. Smith Standard Models (sales booklet, 1928)
• Montgomery Ward Signature 100 [3]
• Olivetti Lettera 22 [x]
• Olivetti Praxis 48 [x]
• Olympia SG1 [x]
• Olympia SG3 [x]
• Olympia SM3 [2]
• Olympia SM (service manual, 1955)
• Olympia SM7
• Olympia SM8-9 [8]
• Olympia Traveller de Luxe [x]
• Optima P1
• Remington Noiseless 7
• Remington portables, 1936 models (Basic operation diagrams excerpted from Touch Method Instructor. Includes Model 1, Noiseless Portable, Noiseless 7 & 8, Remington 9.)
• Remington "-Riter" portables [3]
• Remington Standard No.2 (Excerpted from Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer's Hand-Book, 1892.) [5]
• Remington Standard No.10 & No.11 [x]
• Royal Arrow
• Royal Empress
• Royal Quiet DeLuxe (1948)
• Royal Portable (2nd version, 1926. External site.)
• Royal Portables (early '50s models) [3]
• Royal Portables (Silver-Seiko models)
• Royal Standard No.1 [x]
• Royal Standard No.10 (External site)
• Smith-Corona Floating Shift Portables (post-war Speedline models)
• Smith-Corona Model 88 standard
• Smith-Corona Portables (Super-5 models)
• Smith-Corona Portables (Galaxie models)
• Smith-Corona Sterling (early '60s model) [x]
• Smith Premier No.l (Excerpted from Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer's Hand-Book, 1892.)
• Sun Index ("dogbone") (JPG) [1]
• Torpedo 18
• Tower Chieftain
• Tower Chieftain II
• Underwood De Luxe Quiet Tab
• Underwood Standard Nos. 3-5 [3]
• Underwood Standard Portable (3-bank) [x]
• Underwood Standard Portable (4-bank)

[1] Courtesy Peter Weil
[2] Courtesy Michael Clemens
[3] Courtesy Keith McBride
[4] Courtesy Charles Woodward
[5] Via Google Books
[6] Via Computer-Refuge.org
[7] Courtesy Steve Cook
[8] Courtesy Jud Durant
[x] Unknown. If you are the person who scanned this and would like credit or would prefer it be removed, please contact me.

Misc

Battle of Detroit: an impartial account of the fierce war waged in the Board of Education by the typewriter trust against the Oliver Typewriter, in the year 1899 (Archive.org)	Corona matchbook cover	Envelope Pack: 9 vintage envelope designs. Will print on most standard-size small envelopes. Great for role-playing props! (Not intended for actual mailing.) (1.5mb ZIP)
Evolution of the Typewriter, 1917 (external site)	Keys to Electri-conomy (Remington-Rand electric typewriter promotional video. Archive.org)	Oliver 7 desktop background (image courtesy Peter Weil) 1920x1200 1920x1024 1680x1050 1680x1050 Mac-oriented
Pitman's Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction MP3s from 78rpm records. (Archive.org)	Remington Notes, May, 1917 (Archive.org)	Remington Notes, May, 1918 (Archive.org)
Remington Rhymes of Typewriter Times childrens' book, 1929 (PDF)	Remington Standard Typewriter catalog, c.1885 (Archive.org)	Remington Typewriter Furniture (Archive.org)
Smith-Corona Changeable Type brochure (PDF).	Smith-Corona Touch-Typewriting chart	Telegram Pack: 14 blank, vintage telegram forms to print and use. Many come in full- and half-sheet sizes. Great for role-playing props! (7mb ZIP)
Tips to Typists, by Smith-Corona (external site, via Richard Polt)	Torpedo 18 brochure (PDF)	Touch Method Instructor for Remington Typewriters, 1936 (PDF)
Typefaces for Portable and Standard Olympia Typewriters	1950 Federal Work Improvement Program Equipment Maintenance Series #1 booklet, Typewriter Care (PDF).	Typewriter Topics, Oct, 1923 Commemorative issue of Typewriter Topics used as the basis for "A History of the Typewriter". Fair quality scan of a photocopy. (Archive.org.)
US Army Signal Corps Training Manual No.71: Typewriting for Military Specialists, 1923 (external site)	Vari-Typer Typeface Catalog, 1946 (Archive.org)	What Every Typist Should Know, published by Remington Rand, 1934 (PDF)