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ETCetera
is a quarterly full-color magazine featuring
original articles on historic writing machines.

Recurring features include:

Editor's Notes
Show & Tell

Ephemera by Peter Weil
Around the World
Letters
New on the Shelf

Translations into German
and (starting with issue 89) Spanish
are available.


Editor

Richard Polt
4745 Winton Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45232 USA
polt@xavier.edu

creator of The Classic Typewriter Page

Always appreciated: letters to the editor, photographs,
information, questions, articles, book reviews,
and other items of interest to typewriter collectors.


How to Subscribe

$30 in North America, $35 elsewhere

Price includes a subscription to ETCetera (4 issues per calendar year) and membership in ETCA.

Send dues and your contact information (mailing address, phone, e-mail) to our secretary-treasurer, Herman Price. When you pay, you will receive any issues that have been published so far this calendar year, and you will be on our mailing list for the rest of the calendar year.
We accept two methods of payment:


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2. Or mail US$ checks or money orders, payable to Herman Price, to


ETCetera
c/o Herman J. Price, CPA
195 Greenbag Road
Morgantown, WV 26501, USA



Current issue




No. 91, September 2010

Hogar: A Different Story
Ephemera: Calendars
Triumph-Adler: A History
Midwest Typefest 2010
The Future of the Past: Underhill's Wishes
 From Our Members: Senator, Weeks Standard, Hispania
Remington Field Day Update


Recent Issues





No. 73, March 2006

Cover: Business typewriter
Typewriter Periodicals: A History
The Kabouter
Show & Tell: Nikkei Master
Victor portable
Book review: John N. Williams Story
Back to Basics: Typewriter Photography
Tennessee Williams' Typewriters

Download a free copy of this issue here
Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch (German summary)



No. 74, June 2006

Restoring a Duplex
Portables made today
Collector's Corner: Tilman Elster
Ephemera: A Crandall at home
Make your own typewriter font
Back to Basics: An eBay primer



No. 75, September 2006

Cover: A Burnett for $25
A Writing Ball rediscovered
The Walker Silent Typewriter
Collector's Corner: Shannon Johnson
Olivetti ICO (MP1) portable
Ephemera: Caligraph trade card
Show & Tell: Odell #1
The "Classic Typewriter"
Hermes 2000 vs. 3000
Woodstock portable





No. 76, December 2006

Behind the Alexis
Burroughs typewriters
Ephemera: Business cards
Typing at Sears headquarters (stereo views)
Atlantique City report
Photos: Betz (Harris), Knoch (Ford)



No. 77, March 2007

Mysterious electric Braille typewriter
Highlights from Jim Rauen's collection
The Pocket Type Writer
Corona and Molle
Ephemera: A photographer's Oliver
Shades of Sholes
Ravizza reproduction





No. 78, June 2007

The Conqueror
The Porcelain Writing Ball
Charles Spiro
The Mitterhofer Exhibition
Ephemera: Poster stamps
Show & Tell: Groma N, War Version
Collector's Corner: John Kearns
Will and Dave Davis's workshop




No. 79, September 2007

The Odkolek Typewriter
Czech Typewriter Gallery
The Matous Typewriter
Show & Tell: English Fitch
Portables, ETCetera: Consul portables
Book Review: The Iron Whim
Photo: Imperial (Triumph Perfect Visible)




No. 80, December 2007

Cover: Onondaga collection to be auctioned
The Hermes Baby
Australia's Powerhouse Museum
Typewriters in Modern Mechanix
Ephemera: Pinbacks
Portables, ETCetera: type levers



No. 81, March 2008

Livermore's Permutation Typograph
The Early History of the Noiseless
Barney's Ideal model
Portables, ETCetera: Flat portables
Ephemera: Crandall in a general store
Book review: The Typewriter Sketchbook




No. 82, June 2008

Reduced for the Pocket: One-handed Devices
Show & Tell: A Bennington Letter
Ephemera: Letter from an Oliver Salesman
The Oliver Magazine, 1903-1905
Portables Potpourri
Photos from our members





No. 83, September 2008

Karel Matous: A Biographical Sketch
Rarities in Cologne
Show & Tell: A New Morris Comes to Light
The Remington Junior
Photos from Our Members
Ephemera: Premiums
Australian Typewriter Museum




No. 84, December 2008

An Open Letter to Abner Peeler
Italian Beauties
Analdo English and the Simplex
Show & Tell: Norica
Ephemera: Peerless
Red Hot Writers
A Very Special Hammond
Meeting in West Virginia




No. 85, March 2009

Restoring 3 Special Machines:
Royal Grand, Brooks, Sholes & Glidden
Dayton
Thebau
Saved from the Key Bandits: Aztec
Portables, ETCetera: Details
Ephemera: Die Cuts
Show & Tell: Garvin




No. 86, June 2009

Typewriting Gets Started in Spain
Victoria
Show & Tell: Majuguin
Hispano Olivetti: A Brief History
Talleres Alonso: Regia, Talbos, and Andina
Red Hot Writers
Ephemera: Bar-Lock factory




No. 87, September 2009

Univex
Atlántida
Invented in Spain
Remer
Collector's Corner: Mario Pedrali
Rarities in Cologne
Ephemera: Typewriters in the White House
Spiro found?




No. 88, December 2009

Junior/Winsor/Alondra
Rarities in Cologne
My Homemade Sholes & Glidden
Ephemera: Typewriters & Tobacco
The Dart "Type-Writing" Machine
Meeting in West Virginia




No 89, March 2010

The Crown (??)
Ephemera: Movin' Iron
Typewriters in Spain: Patria/Amaya
The Patria family
The Brennan Typewriter
 From Our Members: backstrokes and Delaware meeting





No. 90, June 2010

Arthur Wise Cash and the Typograph
Iberia
Ephemera: Remington Field Day
Show & Tell: Thurber?
On the Original Owner of a Remington
Typewriters Return to the Typewriter Museum
Supreme Soviets





No. 91, September 2010

Hogar: A Different Story
Ephemera: Calendars
Triumph-Adler: A History
Midwest Typefest 2010
The Future of the Past: Underhill's Wishes
 From Our Members: Senator, Weeks Standard, Hispania
Remington Field Day Update






Index of back issues

Please follow this link for a complete index of ETCetera from its inception in 1987.



Ordering back issues

Issues 1-49 (1987-1999), edited by Darryl Rehr,
can be downloaded in PDF format from our index page,
as can issue 50, edited by Kevin McGowin.

  Issues 51-72, edited by Chuck Dilts and Rich Cincotta (2000-2005), can be ordered from Rich Cincotta, PO Box 286, Southboro, MA 01772, USA, typewriter@writeme.com. Some covers and contents of these issues can be seen on this page.

 

Issues 73 and up (2006-) can be ordered for $25 per year (North America) or $30 per year (elsewhere).
Individual back issues cost $6.25 (North America) or $7.50 (elsewhere).
Please let us know which years or issues you are ordering.
We accept two methods of payment:

1. Use PayPal (credit cards accepted) to send a payment to etcetera.payments@gmail.com:

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2. Or mail US$ checks or money orders, payable to Herman Price, to


ETCetera
c/o Herman J. Price, CPA
195 Greenbag Road
Morgantown, WV 26501, USA