Underwood Typewriter
Catalog #
2022.010.001
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Underwood Standard Desktop 26″ carriage Typewriter. Railroad and steamship offices, as well as accountants, dry-goods store and many mercantile firms, require machines that will do “wide work”.
Underwood Typewriter Company was founded in 1895 by John T. Underwood. Prior to founding the company, the Underwood family produced carbon paper and typewriter ribbon starting in 1874. The Underwood Typewriter was created through the genus of a German-American inventor named Franz X. Wagner and the first Underwood typewriter was produced for the Wagner Typewriter Company. The actual Underwood name comes from John T. Underwood, who was funding and eventually purchased Wagner’s company early in its history.