#LC SMITH AND CORONA TYPEWRITER PORTABLE#
The merged company made office machines in Syracuse and portable typewriters in Groton. merged with Groton-based Corona Typewriter Company to become L.C. Washington Street in Syracuse, doubled in size. The company became tremendously successful, and by 1911, the manufacturing plant, located at 701 E. Recognizing the potential of far greater financial rewards by making and selling typewriters, Smith sold the shotgun factory in 1889 and poured additional capital into the new Smith Premier Typewriter Company. Brown’s tinkering led to him creating the Smith Premier typewriter in 1886, the first typewriter to print both upper and lower case letters. While experiencing a financial windfall with his shotgun, Smith allowed Brown to experiment with a recently developed typing machine. Smith breech-loading shotgun, which became a very popular firearm and made the company a great business success. One of Smith’s employees, the brilliant and entrepreneurial Alexander T. Smith, Maker of the Baker Gun, Syracuse, NY. Lymon stayed in Syracuse and continued making the Baker shotgun with his brother Wilbert, under the name, L.C.
Three years later, Baker and Leroy Smith left the company and went to Ithaca to establish the Ithaca Gun Co. Lymon Smith, who moved to Syracuse from Lisle (Broome County), NY, founded a shotgun factory with his brother Leroy and a talented gun designer, William Baker, in 1877, known as W.H. But the Smith brothers’ rise to become one of the largest typewriter companies in the world started in a rather unconventional manner. Four Smith brothers – Lymon C., Wilbert L., Monroe C., and Hurlburt W. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company:Īt the turn of the 20 th century, along with being known as the Salt City, Syracuse was also known as the Typewriter City, because typewriter factories were a common sight throughout the city. Now, the location is the site of the Center of Excellence building. The company stayed on this site until 1962 when it was replaced with an office building called Midtown Plaza that housed Onondaga Community College for a decade. Woodruff had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of New York State under three different governors (the only person in NYS history to do so), including Theodore Roosevelt. Woodruff was selected as president of the company. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company bought a Washington and Almond Street site for their factory. It all depends who sees it and how much they want it.On February 10th, 1903, The L.C. Certain models will always bring a decent price (such as a Hermes 3000, a typewriter with script typeface, or a pink machine), but even those are subject to change. The typewriter market fluctuates so much that it is really hard to give an exact number. As others have said, it is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It's a bit of a niche market, but salable nonetheless. However, someone who really likes the Corona line, or depression era machines in general, would be interested in it. Someone that wants a typewriter to type with probably wouldn't purchase this model. These sort of typewriters are fairly collectable, but only to the right people. I have a Comet Deluxe and, while it is missing many features, still FEELS like a Corona, you know? They lack all the bells and whistles of a standard portable typewriter, although the typing action is nearly the same.Ĭorona actually came out with a few other depression models namely, the Comet and the Comet DeLuxe. Other companies, such as Underwood and Royal, put out machines that are near replicas of this one. Just one of the many depression era portables put out.
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