Thread by @dean_frey

My #typewriter thread has gotten really long, so I'll start a new #machineaecrire one:
André Kértesz
Mme Eileen Hale Lake à sa machine à écrire, 50 West 12 Street, New York, 1938
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Love the hair, desk, flowers, typewriter & photo!

Emile Müller
René Lefèvre tapant à la machine à écrire, 1950s
He was an actor who worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair.
Love the phone!
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André Kértesz
L'écrivain Ilya Ehrenbourg à sa machine à écrire
Paris, 1929

André Kértesz
Eve Curie à sa machine à écrire
USA, 1941
Curie spent the war years in Britain & the US, giving lectures & writing for the New York Herald Tribune. Her 1937 biography of her mother, Madame Curie, won the @NationalBook Award.

André Kértesz
Homme à la machine à écrire
Park Avenue, New York, 1963
Another unidentified person; he has a "best & brightest" look.

Emile Müller
Francis Crémieux tapant à la machine à écrire sur son bureau
Paris, 1950
French journalist & author
Another great desk, typewriter & telephone.

Charles Ciccione
Secretaires au travail, c. 1960
Times have changed. Typing is still a thing, but filing punched cards: not so much!

Times have changed, part II
An AFP employee, wearing a Catherinette hat, taps on a Remington typewriter in the 1950s in Paris. The Catherinettes, young women of twenty-five or more, single, were celebrated and wearing a hat on St. Catherine's Day, November 25.

Harold Chapman
Dixie Nimmo travaillant sur sa machine à écrire
The West Indian writer is in Room 38 of the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur, Paris, 1959

Georges Simenon types another Maigret story at the Château d'Echandens
Photo: Horst Tappe, 1962
Look at all those pipes!

George Bernard Shaw at work at the typewriter, in his writing hut at Ayot St. Lawrence
PA Archive/Roger-Viollet, August 1929

Sinclair Lewis & Dorothy Thompson, both hard at work in the open air.
The couple who type together...
Ullstein Bild/Roger-Viollet, 1930

Luigi Pirandello shows off his typing skills to his kids
Alinari/Roger-Viollet, 1934

Albert Harlingue
Intérieur d'un café Dupont
Paris, 1930
Working on their screenplay, just like their great-grandkids at Starbucks in the next century.

In room 40 of the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur, Paris: La machine à écrire de Tom le Texan
Photo: Harold Chapman, 1957

Preston Sturges at work on a typewriter in France, c. 1955 Photo: Gaston Paris
He was probably at work on his screenplay for his penultimate film, The French, They Are a Funny Race (Les carnets du Major Thompson), released in 1955