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Uncle Max Garbell designed and manufactured these sleek portables:
5 1/2 pounds, carriage gear driven, rocker bearing, double ball bearing races.
Model #3 shown above
The first non-folding portable typewriter
Another view of Model #3, 1920
Max
Garbell
Order
Desk (brother Sam on right)
Tool
Room
Assembly
Room
Model
#3, 1920
The
Garbell Portable Model #1
The
Garbell Portable #1 brochure
Adding Machine: design sold to Royal
The Garbell Typewriter Co., Inc.
1812 Ellen Street, Chicago,
Illinois
Factory
rear view, circa 1919
More Garbell Typewriter Co photos
Patent papers & photos courtesy of Lee Garbell
Typewriter Links:
A Short Story of the Manual Portable Typewriter
A Timeline of Old Time Typewriters
Majon Web Select
"SEAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD" 
Because this is a major award, I received a lamp in the
shape of a woman's leg wearing a nylon stocking.
page updated 28 July 2009
