1970 Olivetti Valentine typewriter

1970 Olivetti Valentine

Most typewriters from the twentieth century were built to be useful and forgotten. The Valentine wasn’t, and that’s the reason people still talk about it...

1956 Smith-Corona Silent Super typewriter

1956 Smith-Corona Silent Super

By 1956, Smith-Corona was building machines that felt serious and stylish at once, and the Silent Super still turns up in more collections than almost...

1949 Royal Quiet DeLuxe typewriter

1949 Royal Quiet DeLuxe

Every writer’s biopic seems to reach for the same machine eventually, cast wide behind a typing hand. That’s the Royal Quiet DeLuxe, often called the...

black and white photo of Marblehead Lighthouse

Marblehead Lighthouse

Perched on a limestone bluff where Lake Erie meets Sandusky Bay, Marblehead Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse still operating on the Great Lakes. Congress funded...

Pixelle Paper Mill, Chillicothe, OH

The Price of Everything

I keep noticing the same thing, town after town: the interconnected forces of consumerism, economic decline, and cultural erosion in post-industrial and rural America, and...