Paul Engle’s personal home typewriter, ca. 1960s. Item courtesy of Hualing Nieh Engle.
Note from co-curator Nataša Ďurovičová:
This artifact could be said to be the first source of all things IWP. As is well known, Paul Engle was an indefatigable letter and memo writer, producing dozens a day before even a correctable Selectric existed: you really had to know what you wanted to say when you sat down to type. Several of his thousands of memos and letters, borrowed from the vast Paul Engle Papers can be seen in the exhibit. The typewriter is on loan, graciously, from Ms. Engle and Ms. Wang.
Paul Engle’s typewriter, 1960s. Item courtesy of Hualing Nieh Engle.