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Many of the objects that formed a part of this loan collection have found a place in the permanent Museum collections. ^[[This clause prefaces the Various collection]]
Among them may be mentioned^[[.]] The collection [[strikethrough]] # [[/strikethrough]] of typewriters made by Messrs Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict of New York, ^[[illustrating]] the development of the type bar writing matching. Included among the number are the model of the "Shole and Gladden" typewriter, which was invented at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by C. Latham Sholes and Samuel S. Soule and Charlos Glidden in 1867. This is the model through which E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, N.Y. first became interested in the manufacture of typewriters in 1873; one of the first machines manufactured from this model, (only three having ^[[been]] made in 1873) is also in the Collection. Parts of this mechanism were altered and modified when the present 
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# This collection of typewriters was received in April, 1891, but were not accessioned until July, 1891. [[/strikethrough]]