Item HT 757 Booklet - Promotional, Hermes Polyglot 2000 Typewriter, 1952

Summary

Promotional booklet for Hermess typewriter belonging to Alma Arnould, who immigrated to Australia in 1971. Alma was born in Egypt, educated in England and lived and finally migrated from Belgium. Alma was a linguist and worked as a translator in Europe. She bought the typewriter with her first wages in the 1950s for her work. It has an international keyboard and types in French, English, Spanish and German. Although Alma never used the typewriter in Australia, the machine itself has been branded with a Migrant Flight Number which marks it literally and symbolically as a migration object. Migrant specific flights were identified with a special MI prefix.

Physical Description

Booklet with colour image of a smiling young woman working at a typewriter on the cover.