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Black and white 9 3/4″ x 13 3/4″ ad that advertises the Smith-Corona Electric Portable Typewriter. This is an interesting ad, showing a lady wearing a dress, sitting on a suitcase and typing on a typewriter that is sitting on her lap and plugged into an outlet by her feet and the headline says “miniwork”. The ad tells us that “Miniwork is efficient work. The kind of effort that can help your teenager work less to learn more. The work of the world’s first electric portable typewriter. A Smith-Corona Electric Portable can help your teenager become a better student at least seven ways. It can help her write twice as fast. Improve her spelling. Increase her reading speed. Encourage neatness. Stimulate her creative writing. Build her word power. And, because it’s fun to use, motivate her to want to do better (or him). The Smith-Corona Electric Portable is an age ahead of ordinary manuals. A learning tool tuned to the world we live in. Because electricity does the work, it makes learning to type almost effortless. Because it’s portable, it’s the natural choice of tomorrow’s hard-working campus crowd. It’s so easy to go to college”.
Source: November 24, 1967 Life magazine.
