{"id":8137,"date":"2012-05-23T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:49","slug":"spayds-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/23\/spayds-typewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Spayd’s Typewriter Co."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an advertisement for Spayd’s Typewriter Company<\/strong> from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon<\/em> starring Maude Adams<\/strong> which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater<\/strong> back in 1901.<\/p>\n

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A 1938 photo of 912 Walnut after Spayd had come and gone.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr. Rufus Spayd sold, leased and repaired typewriters and duplicating devices. Curious as to what duplicating devices were at the time, I did some research<\/a> and was surprised to discover there were numerous options at the time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Neostyle Company<\/strong> marketed the first rotary stencil duplicator in 1898. The following year they offered a model with the choice of a hand crank, foot treadle, or electric motor.<\/p>\n

There was also a mimeograph – invented by Thomas Edison<\/strong>, and sold by the A.B. Dick Company of Chicago in 1900. Here is the 1896 ad for the Edison Mimeograph<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Duplicating machines were the predecessors of printers and photocopiers, Mr. Spayd was Kinko’s<\/em> before there was a Kinko’s!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s an advertisement for Spayd’s Typewriter Company from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,4,104],"tags":[1133,1615,1616,1618,1617,1619],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-1133","tag-duplicating-machines","tag-mimeograph","tag-the-neostyle-company","tag-thomas-edison","tag-typewriters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-27f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5604,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/13\/quaker-city-automobile-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":0},"title":"The Quaker City Automobile Company","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Included with The Capewell Negative Collection was a box of odds and ends - mostly paperwork - but there was some really interesting things as well, such as picture postcards and this really wonderful playbill souvenir program from the Broad Street Theater in 1901. 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