This giant promotional model was built by the Underwood Elliott Fisher Company. The carriage alone weighed 3,500 pounds, and each individual typebar weighed 45 pounds. It typed on 9 by 12 feet stationery sheets using a 100-foot-long ribbon.

Originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, it was completely refurbished and modernized into the "Master" design style for the 1939 World's Fair exhibition.

Source: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

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r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Lucalebowski • 4h ago

of a Chonka-Butt Mallard

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Port Clinton City Beach. Lake Erie.

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