This is the type of picture I like to assign to my students because it invites so many questions! I love that you followed the many threads one by one to see what you could find, but also that it is so personally meaningful. Thanks for sharing this.
Fwiw, I’m guessing the “single action” description is about the typewriter?
Ok bc I’m a nerdy historian and stuck on a runway, I looked around a bit and “single action” was another way of describing the “single element” aspect of new typewriters around the 1910s. Nobody needs this information, I know, but this is what happens when historians are bored with wifi lol.
Now I can't seem to get past the feeling that this is an illusion - a man is crouched hiding behind the woman showing his hands, and hers are hidden down at her sides. But why?
You really gotta read Wisconsin Death Trip, if you haven’t already. (It’s not joyful like this picture though.)
On it! Sounds right up my alley
This is the type of picture I like to assign to my students because it invites so many questions! I love that you followed the many threads one by one to see what you could find, but also that it is so personally meaningful. Thanks for sharing this.
Fwiw, I’m guessing the “single action” description is about the typewriter?
Yes! Okay, maybe you're right about the typewriter description! One of these days I will search for the image on newspapers.com and learn the truth.
Ok bc I’m a nerdy historian and stuck on a runway, I looked around a bit and “single action” was another way of describing the “single element” aspect of new typewriters around the 1910s. Nobody needs this information, I know, but this is what happens when historians are bored with wifi lol.
Now I can't seem to get past the feeling that this is an illusion - a man is crouched hiding behind the woman showing his hands, and hers are hidden down at her sides. But why?