Alan Lomax’s SELECTRIC II up for sale

It’s beautiful, it’s blue and it belonged to the legendary musicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax.

On eBay right now,  no bids yet, someone please  buy it–so I don’t!        Here’s the link.

And here’s the machine:

LOMAX selectric

What a nice color… same as the one in the snowy field that Hunter S. Thompson menaced with a shiny pistol. This one probably had a much calmer existence!

 

 

 

 

Advertisement

Leave a comment

Filed under IBM SELECTRIC, public typewriting

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s