Like the old joke says, "how do you know if a man who travels has opinions of the Blickensderfer as a traveling companion?"

Catalog with illustration of a man standing at a ticket booth with a portable typewriter.

Like the old joke says, "how do you know if a man who travels has opinions of the Blickensderfer as a traveling companion?" Don't worry, he'll tell you!

This 1908 catalog for portable typewriters from the Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company is part of Hagley Library's Donald & Carolyn Hoke Typewriter Advertising and Ephemera collection, which contains advertising, catalogs, and other manufacturers' ephemera documenting the use and technological development of the typewriter through its beginnings in the 1870s until its gradual obsolescence in the 1990s.

If you'd like to find some men's opinions online, you're in luck; to find this catalog and a selection of others from the Donald & Carolyn Hoke Typewriter and Advertising Ephemera collection, just click here to view them in the Hagley Digital Archives.