(32) When paired with a
mimeograph machine, the typewriter was a key technological partner in the production of scripts and book-like objects such as pamphlets and broadsides that circulated outside of corporate publishing and distribution networks in the mid-twentieth century.
A trunk with a typewriter on its lid, piles of papers, and the
mimeograph machine beside the bay window.
The typewriter and
mimeograph machine sat on my dining room table that was cleared only for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Lee establishes Third World Press in his Southside Chicago basement apartment with $400, a used
mimeograph machine, and the help of poets Johari Amini and Carolyn Rodgers.
Copies were run off on a
mimeograph machine and mailed at the college post office.
And they published two leaflets on a homemade
mimeograph machine, 250 copies of each, distributed to their friends.
McCombs' dad, Philip, who owned and ran Allen's Press Clipping Bureau, donated a
mimeograph machine to the operation.
Eventually, though, the process led to the modern technique of photocopying, which has virtually eliminated the
mimeograph machine and greatly reduced the need for carbon paper.
Last season, Heubener, a play by Russian professor Tom Rogers, was restaged after a 15-year moratorium; initially banned from production at Ballif's Theatre 138 or elsewhere by church and/or university officials (Rogers will not say which), the play tells the true story of Heubener, a 17-year-old Mormon in Nazi Germany who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets copied on a church
mimeograph machine. After the boy and three friends were caught by the SS, Heubener was excommunicated by the church leader in his German district before he was executed by the Nazis.
In the new Russia, Baldwin wrote, "No printing press, not even a
mimeograph machine, can operate without a permit." In papers not run by a Communist editor, "an agent of the censorship sits regularly to pass on all copy before it is set up." Opposition voices were muted.
Then, as a young civil service worker for the Federal Housing Authority in Washington, DC, she noticed that "The black woman who ran the
mimeograph machine in the basement ...
a
mimeograph machine. This method yielded copies in the thousands, but