Typewriter Tuesday: Mae West

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For today’s Typewriter Tuesday we’re taking a closer look at Mae West’s 1959 Olympia SF, on loan from the collection of Steve Soboroff. You can see this machine and more on display in our special exhibit Tools of the Trade, open now. Mae West’s 1959 Olympia SF, on display in our Tools of the Trade exhibit. “I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.” Mae West, a woman of endless charisma and controversial, outspoken wit, wrote most of her own lines, and relished the trouble they brought. West, born in Brooklyn, started performing young, in vaudeville and jazz clubs and sm

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