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The Oliver Typewriter band poses in front of the Chicago headquarters. The building features the typical Chicago-style entrance at the point of the intersection of two streets. The company expanded quickly in both Chicago and Woodstock and the…

The Oliver Typewriter Band poses on a stage that is sometimes identifed as the Woodstock Opera House. The names are listed on the back with corrections and varied spellings and the note "about 1900." The library owns three copies, two donated by…

Men are working in the main office of the Oliver Typewriter factory. Chester Nelson, the man who was commissioned to shut down the factory in 1929 until the last man had left, has identified some of the men with a label on the photo itself.
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This group of employees on the lawn in front of the Oliver Typewriter factory are being recognized for having been employed for 15 or more years of service. Three women join the gentlemen who are dressed in suits, many with medals on their lapels in…

In addition to manufacturing typewriters, Oliver Typwriter company offered repair services for their machines. The men have various typewriters, parts, and tools at their workstations.

Ed Field is seated first in the row to the right of the window…

In 1907, a factory straightening department was a finishing workspace where workers manually trued, flattened, or unbent metal components. Because early stamping presses and heat-treating caused metal parts to warp, these workers used hammers, screw…

A very large group of employees pose in the Main Assembling Department in the 1907 Medlar series. Vice President and Superintendent John Whitworth is fourth from the right in the front row.

Men pose with their Brown & Sharpe screw machines in the Oliver Typewriter factory. These mechanical, multiple-spindle lathes used gears and cams to automatically form, thread, and cut small metal parts from bar stock.

On the back, Lynn Dibbler is…

Men assemble the final product in this department, putting the finished Oliver Typewriter Model 5 on the board in front of them, complete with paper on the platen.

Medlar 1907 series