Warning: this post contains images of partial nudity
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Images from Typewriter Museum
Typewriter Erotica c. 1920s
If you like this, check out:
Colour hi-res photographs of London, 1949
Brooklyn Teen Gang, The Jokers, 1959
Aliens in vintage postcards
“Time-traveler” in Chaplin Film, 1928
Colour photographs of the Hindenburg interior, 1930s
Abandoned New York Movie Theatre
Skeleton of a Centaur
Victorian Surrealism
Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1935-1958
Evolution of Madonna Magazine Covers, 1983-2011
Mike the Headless chicken
Blackfoot Decorated Tipis c.1900
Colourised postcards of Kansas City, 1920s / 1930s
Colour photographs of London after Air Raid Attack, September 1940
'Man's Life' Magazine, 1950s
Kanaval, by Leah Gordon
Colour photographs of circus performers, 1940s-1950s
New York, 1960s, by James Jowers
Silent Era Movie Posters
Derringer Cycle
Behind the Scenes of "Metropolis", 1925-1926
I love the cheeky “come on” look of the girl in the bottom picture!
Warning-Partial nudity? Looks fairly full on nudity to me…
well, no frontal nudity. sidal nudity.
Those are my women types.
Why, God, why do we live in an era where females have to look like f**king sticks?
This is natural beauty. Women take note.
Love these, the way they all interact with the typewriter like it’s a fetishised object.
One gripe however- to do with the comments. First; two wrongs don’t make a right- insulting thin women (I am NOT one BTW) is equally nasty as insulting larger women. Additionally, what someone else regards as ‘natural beauty’ does not need to be patronisingly instructed to be ‘noted’ by women (or ‘fellow human beings’, of equal status, not there for ANYONE to boss around, as we are otherwise known).
…I thought part of the amusement in this was the outdated nature of the ‘compliant secretary’. I think the ironic humour has been lost on some and they think this is what women should aspire to (status wise, I mean).
JohnL: “I love the cheeky “come on” look of the girl in the bottom picture!”
I love the cheeky “come on” look of the bottom in the girl picture!
I like her shoes!
Yes, these typewriters are very sexy!
Rule 34!
I’m sure these women were not big in terms of height or weight. Probably the main difference between them and “hot” women of today is that these women lacked muscle tone. Women didn’t go to yoga class or jog back then.
Well said, Perdita!
I agree with Perdita.
I personally have quite a thin figure despite the fact that I exercise only when I feel like it (I usually walk to work, so I get my exerccise there along with beautiful city scenery) and eat normally. Whether you are thin or thick, no one should have the right to put you down on a basis of appearance. If you’re healthy and feel comfortable in your own body, what does it matter if you’re thin or curvy? Besides, all men have different tastes. It’s patronising to think that women should comply to certain rules just because men like it.
It does annoy me that those who are very thin, usually go overboard with their “healthy” lifestyle by eating nothing but roots and exercising even though it doesn’t feel fun anymore, and sometimes feel the need to chastise others and claiming their way is the only way. However, this applies both ways. It equally annoys me when people who have a major obesity problem, and are in danger to die at any time talk about their curves. Curves and obesity are two different things. Don’t play with your health.
These women in these pictures look very sultry, curvy and sexy in my opinion, and what’s more important: healthy. So let’s just enjoy these pretty photographs and this awesome site without being rude!
…um, what exactly is a ‘typewriter’?
“no one should have the right to put you down on a basis of appearance”
The fashion Guru’s do exactly that, if you want to be a fashion model, you will not be accepted unless you are the ‘stick’ that Hurrderp mentioned. Young women make themselves ill, very ill, to attain that acceptance. So, Perdita and omppu, they are who Hurrderp is referring to as ‘sticks’ and I agree with him (her ?), it is painful to see such distorted versions of the human woman parading down a walkway in a fantasy world that is only interested in selling, often horrible clothes, for a ‘designer’s’ glory and profit. That should be stopped by law. I’m glad that there are areas of the fashion world that refuse to go down that road … good on them.
Let’s see normal women doing that job, women with the hips to bear a child and breasts to feed that child with, women who can expertly do the only thing that men can’t !
Well, I don’t know why we think that fashion models are somehow the sole basis that women measure themselves by and strive to attain. Young women I know idolize musicians, actors and general celebrities. Very few of them actually qualify as a “stick”. And in spite of the persistent claim of models being sticks, quite a few of the most influential ones are far from such hyperbole. (Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks) I think we focus too much on something that was an issue for a few years several years ago, and treat it as like it was still an issue. Anorexia is a different animal all together.
Wonderful, excellent blog… thank you!
I got me a Underwood typewriter, big tall antiquey looking thing just like in these photos, but no beautiful leggy or naked women have flocked around mine. Huh.
Maybe I just have it in the wrong room in the house. Let’s see here… hmm…