Jewett Typewriter Company

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Certificate for 4 shares of $5 each - Des Moines 1903

€30.00
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The company was founded by George Jewett. He first helped found in 1872 the Iowa Loan & Trust Company and Des Moines Scale Company. He was also a founder of Drake University and assisted in organizing the YMCA. But in 1888, an invention grabbed his attention: the typewriter.

The Jewett Typewriter Company sold one of the first commercially successful machines worldwide.

Jewett visited Europe promote his typewriter business and his company received awards at the Chicago World’s Fair and the Paris Exposition.

Unfortunately, Jewett Typewriter had some challenges in the early 1900s, as some stockholders out East wanted to move the factory to Cleveland.

Jewett Typewriter managed to hold out until about 1910 when it was purchased by Underwood Typewriter Company and fully ceased production in Iowa.

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Country
USA
Theme
Printing
Design
Yes
Condition
EF

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