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Rosalie Miller using what appears to be a music typewriter. I've been unable to identify the model – and there were only a handful c.1918, so perhaps this is not a music typewriter. While there are many sources ... the one I've found more appropriate to music typewriters is from Music Printing History.

Not a music typewriter, "This machine is the Blick Featherweight and is a development of the earlier Model 5 with an aluminium frame. Possibly the lightest portable typewriter ever produced, the Featherweight was marketed as the 'Five Pound Secretary'. " It had a changeable typewheel, too. Photos and a detailed description of how it worked at collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/388118 1915 ad: books.google.com/books?id=dndQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA68&am...

Flicker user César Astudillo

Nicely done Art Siegel!   It's just like you! ;) I love the photograph by César Astudillo! It's so interesting that there were these "featherweight" typewriters early on, and they seemingly just became bigger and heavier through the years. And the similarity between the Blick's rotating type wheel (1910) and IBM Selectric's type balls 50 years later is amazing. (Blick offered 170 different type wheels according to the ad you found!) As an aside, while searching earlier for music typewriters I noted that "type writer" appears to have begun as two words... and followed the usual sequence of becoming hyphenated and then one word -- albeit over a relatively short timeline.

Rosalie Miller using what appears to be a music typewriter. I've been unable to identify the model – and there were only a handful c.1918, so perhaps this is not a music typewriter. While there are many sources ... the one I've found more appropriate to music typewriters is from Music Printing History.

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Not a music typewriter, "This machine is the Blick Featherweight and is a development of the earlier Model 5 with an aluminium frame. Possibly the lightest portable typewriter ever produced, the Featherweight was marketed as the 'Five Pound Secretary'. " It had a changeable typewheel, too. Photos and a detailed description of how it worked at collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/388118

Nicely done Art Siegel!   It's just like you! ;) I love the photograph by César Astudillo! It's so interesting that there were these "featherweight" typewriters early on, and they seemingly just became bigger and heavier through the years. And the similarity between the Blick's rotating type wheel (1910) and IBM Selectric's type balls 50 years later is amazing. (Blick offered 170 different type wheels according to the ad you found!) As an aside, while searching earlier for music typewriters I noted that "type writer" appears to have begun as two words... and followed the usual sequence of becoming hyphenated and then one word -- albeit over a relatively short timeline.

That typewheel is pretty amazing. I also like that there is no ribbon, and the typewheel inks itself on an ink roller, held up by that big metal arc piece, on the way down to the paper. There are a lot of words like that, aren't there? The hyphen from email seems to have finally disappeared.

Beautiful!!!!

Rosalie Miller, soprano, sometime violinist. books.google.com/books?id=HO86AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA17-PA9&am...

"ROSALIE MILLER [s]. New York City (?), 1888- 1972. A concert singer active in the New York area in the ‘teens and ‘20s, Miller also occasionally appeared in opera, for example having sung Pamina in the 1925 Baden-Baden Mozart Festival. The same year she also appeared in five recitals in London and fifteen in Paris, as well as in Dresden and Berlin. Earlier, during the seasons of 1918-20, she had been on the Metropolitan Opera roster appearing only on two Sunday evening Concerts. In the first she sang an aria from Hérodiade and the second “Pleurez, mes yeux” from Le Cid, as well both evenings interesting groupings of songs. Miller taught at Juilliard (then the NY Institute of Musical Art), at the opera workshop program of the Henry Street Settlement in NYC and privately from her home on 68th Street. One of her pupils was soprano Anne Bollinger. " holdridgerecords.com/auction_pdfs/12.3_Cylinders_Pathes_E...

The New-York tribune., November 19, 1919, Page 13, col. 3 published an article about a song recital of her at Carnegie Hall chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-11-19/ed-...

Thanks for the identifying information and likely context for the photo. We'll add information to the description at our end.