Name/Title
Old Colony Typewriter TabletEntry/Object ID
2018.6.62Description
Cover for a typewriter pad of paper. The front features the words, "OLD COLONY / Typewriter Tablet / S.789," along with a picture of a roofline and a company crest. There is no paper left in the notepad.Context
Old Colony typewriter tablets were commonplace across the United States in the mid-1900s. Most drug stores sold packets of looseleaf paper and tablets like this for 10¢ to 25¢—around the same price as a three ring composition notebook or a deck of playing cards.Made/Created
Date made
circa 1930 - 1950