{"id":25861,"date":"2023-05-09T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25861"},"modified":"2023-05-08T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:00:55","slug":"the-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-deep-end\/","title":{"rendered":"the deep end"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a Hamilton, Ontario typing class in 1945 – photo by Superior Engravers via HPL<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. As I noted in the previous post, local libraries and archives<\/a> are helpful to photo collectors. The sample here of a 1945 typing class held in Hamilton, Ontario is courtesy of George Dunbar and his diligent searches on line for photographic history.<\/p>\n

Into the 1960s, typing pools<\/a> were a common business facility for the larger corporations. Letters arrived by internal or external mail and were answered after the reply was written and revised a number of times over a few days including typing (draft and final). Sent by the same internal\/eternal mail, a letter and its reply could easily take a week or two.<\/p>\n

All this changed when internal email came along followed a bit later by internet email. In a ‘blink’, typewriters, standalone systems (like Wang<\/a>) and typing pools disappeared to be replaced by emails sent directly by management who struggled with the complexities of computers and keyboards.<\/p>\n

My wife and I had a few old and working typewriters, one of which was passed on to a grandson. After fiddling with the mechanical marvel, his question to his mom was, “were’s the delete key …”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. As I noted in the previous post, local libraries and archives are helpful to photo collectors. The sample here of a 1945 typing class held in Hamilton, Ontario is courtesy of George Dunbar and his diligent searches on line … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[689,1872,613,495],"class_list":["post-25861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-archive","tag-library","tag-photo","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25865,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions\/25865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}