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IBM Selectric Typewriter

A black typewriter with an inlaid keyboard and a carriage marked with ruler measurements, two knobs on either end.

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  • A black typewriter with an inlaid keyboard and a carriage marked with ruler measurements, two knobs on either end.

Date:

c. 1961

Artist:

Eliot Noyes
American, 1910-1977

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Architecture and Design

Artist

Eliot Noyes (Designer)

Title

IBM Selectric Typewriter

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1956–1966

Medium

Mixed media

Dimensions

16.5 × 47.5 × 38 cm (6 1/2 × 18 5/8 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Victor and Sylvia Margolin

Reference Number

2008.680

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