1947 Urania 8 #302348
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
Created: 06-07-2024 at 04:46PM
Last Edit: 07-13-2024 at 12:46PM
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I got this Urania Standard 8 in June, 2024, as part of a lot of typewriters purchased from fellow typewriter enthusiast Sheryl Oring, Dean of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In terms of provenance, apparently Dr. Oring was in Europe building her sculptural installation called "Writer's Block," in which typewriters are encased in cubes of rusty metal rebar, to symbolize the denial of the writer's tools through Nazi-era censorship. http://www.sheryloring.org/writers-block To make the art installation, she needed a great many old typewriters, many of which she got from a gentleman in Italy who had some 600 typewriters, but the roof of the building where he was storing them collapsed. Apparently these were among those German typewriters, hoarded in Italy, and then returned to Germany as part of an art display, from whence it traveled Europe and the United States, winding up at UArts in Philadelphia... and now on to me.
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Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
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Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University. Writes about alcohol politics, Russia, and international law when not refurbishing old typewriters.
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