Linocuts and an Apology

Richard Welling. New York City Skyline. 2011.465.58

Richard Welling. Manhattan Art Deco. 2012.284.6301.

Richard Welling. Manhattan Bridge, New York. 2011.465.65

Richard Welling. Underwood Typewriter. 2011.465.56.

Richard Welling. Manhattan Bridge. 2012.284.6305 and .6306.

Richard Welling. Underwood Typewriter. 2012.284.6315.

Last time I wrote a blog post, I wrote it about Richard Welling’s linoleum blocks. I mistakenly wrote that we don’t have prints made from the blocks. I would like to formally apologize for that. We actually do have linocuts of most of the Welling linoleum blocks. I just got through cataloging them, and they are really beautiful.

In Lieu of Virtual Keys…

Royal Typewriter Company with automobiles parked in front, New Park Avenue, Hartford, 1930s. Photographic print by James Parker, Connecticut Historical Society collection. Note the rooftop letters atop the building, which read: “ROYAL TYPEWRITERS”.

While many of us have become accustomed to the world of virtual keys on tablets, phones and laptops, we often forget about the technologies that came before them, such as the typewriter. In 1868, a man by the name of Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his invention of the typewriter, which spawned a booming industry in Hartford. One of the major typewriter manufacturers of the 1900s was the Royal Typewriter Company.