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We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam

In this blog post, we will explore another poster I recently bought, which highlights Smith-Corona’s campaign to buy back typewriters for the U.S. government due to wartime shortages during World War II.

The main matters on which all men deliberate and on which political speakers make speeches are some five in number: ways and means, war and peace, national defence, imports and exports, and legislation.- Aristotle’s Rhetoric My poster collection is becoming grander and more interesting! These blogs covered topics like one of the earliest flight simulators used during World War II and the Addressograph, a machine that automatically imprinted names, addresses, or other information on envelopes or forms, somewhat similar to what Xerox later offered. This ad and the others by both Royal and Smith-Corona explained their buy-back scheme in which all standard (not portable) typewriters of their own manufacture made since January 1, 1935, would be purchased at their 1941 trade-in value regardless of the shape they were in, to be reconditioned and sent to the government for distribution to the armed forces.

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