Photo via Wikimedia Commons (Seelackenmuseum collection)
One example. Colors, sub-models, and production years vary; the machine you find may differ.
Underwood No. 5
Worth knowing
- The model that fixed the modern visible, frontstroke layout in place. It was the typewriter of American newsrooms and offices well into the 1940s. Wikipedia ↗
Used by
William Faulkner
wrote most of his major novels on Underwoods; the machine is preserved at Rowan Oak (1930s–1940s)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
drafts including The Great Gatsby (1920s)
Robert Frost
later correspondence and poems (1940s)
See & hear it for yourself
All sources
External, in their original form. The people who know these machines best — click through to read and watch.
Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Underwood
- Origin
- United States
- Years
- 1900–1930
- Form
- Standard
- Mass
- 15 kg
- Shift
- carriage