The Hammond Typewriter Company

Cataloging and scanning Hammond Typewriter Company ephemera, using a Hammond Multiplex typewriter, while sitting at a desk made by the Hammond Typewriter Company.

This receipt for a Hammond 1 purchased on August 16th, 1888 appears to have gotten a little wet, but thanks to technology we can zoom in and make out its serial number. Whenever I come across a serial number I compare it to my database of serials and current owners. For the first time I […]

The Hammond Typewriter Company utilized no less than 5 paper rest designs, each time becoming sturdier and heavier, but less elegant. With the Hammond 1 and 2 the paper simply “rested” against a rod, or it could be tucked under to “stay” in place. The first design is considered the most aesthetically pleasing by collectors, […]

The Hammond Typewriter Company changed their ribbon spools several times. In the beginning, the company employed the use of a celluloid ring with a hollow center reinforced with a brass collar. The ribbon attached to the center column by means of a C-shaped metal clip, and a new ribbon was typically purchased loose and affixed […]

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Original patent approval letter for number 224,088. The typewriter as a machine was still quite new at the time which may explain the handwritten nature of the patent application.

The latest addition to the Hammond ephemera archive is this wonderful receipt from London, December 16th, 1902. A properly completed receipt is a gold mine of information and gives us another piece of the Hammond DNA network. On October 31st something was done, and the number 27,328 likely refers to the machine’s serial number. Eighteen […]

I was looking through our file on salesmen for the Hammond company and recalled this photo of Mr. Howard T. Reynolds at the Philadelphia Branch, in 1922. From a letter to his wife, he writes that Philadelphia was a “fine office.. just as nice as Detroit, Three Salesmen, Two repair men, one book keeper, and […]

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