Case 12 - A Scott Artefact

Sholes Visible Typewriter, produced by the Meiselbeck Typewriter Company of Kinasha, Wisconsin, in 1901.

Sholes Visible Typewriter, produced by the Meiselbeck Typewriter Company of Kinasha, Wisconsin, in 1901.

Research by staff at the Port Chalmers Regional Maritime Museum has revealed that this typewriter was used by Robert Falcon Scott and may also have been used by Ernest Shackleton.

Typewriter courtesy of Port Chalmers Regional Maritime Museum.

Sholes Visible Typewriter, produced by the Meiselbeck Typewriter Company of Kinasha, Wisconsin, in 1901.

Sholes Visible Typewriter, produced by the Meiselbeck Typewriter Company of Kinasha, Wisconsin, in 1901.
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