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Martin and his typewriters have been featured in the media several
times since the collection began. Martin is always willing and eager to
speak about his favourite past-time, so if you are interested in booking
him for a media appearance or interviewing him for an article, please
contact him.
Television
"Breakfast Television"
CityTV, 2003
Running time: 7min 44sec |
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"My Escape"
Global Prime,
1998
Running time: 5min 40sec |
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Internet
Radio
Articles
Newsletters (by Martin Howard)
Exhibits
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Canadian National Steampunk Exhibition - 2011
The collection embodies the age of invention and the mantra of Steampunk, 'The future of the past'.
"Martin's collection is peerless, and has been exhibited in many shows and museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum, and we are lucky to have him interested in participating in the CNSE. Adam Smith - Exhibit Chair
To understand what steampunk is, please read this article by Edmund Siderius.
- International Festival of Authors in Toronto - 2010
  
Antique typewriters, from the Martin Howard Collection,
will be on display at the International Festival of Authors,
Harbourfront, Toronto, October 20 – 30, 2010.
This is what
Margaret Atwood tweetered about the collection.
Calling all Gadgetgeeks! Very early days of keyboards:
www.antiquetypewriters.com
It's like the Jurassic Shales of
Typewriters! Incredible!
Now in its 31st year, the
International Festival of Authors (IFOA) brings together the best
writers of contemporary world literature for 11 days of readings,
interviews, lectures, round table discussions, and public book
signings each October.
"I was delighted to learn of Martin's extensive and diverse typewriter
collection. We are even more delighted to be able to showcase a
portion of his holdings at the International Festival of Authors,"
said Geoffrey E. Taylor, Director of the IFOA.
For a review of the event,
click here.
- Shaw Festival Theatre - 2010
Four typewriters from the Martin Howard Collection will be
displayed in the lobby of the Shaw Festival Theatre during the run of
Age of Arousal by Linda Griffiths. These typewrites are
primary examples of the typewriters that were used by the first
professional typists in the mid 1880s and reflect the period and
setting of the play.
'It’s 1885 in Age of Arousal, and in London
there are half a million more women than men. Mary, an ex-suffragette,
has opened a secretarial school for women to teach liberation through
typing. When three sisters sign up, unexpected passions and secret
desires are unleashed as they each learn what being a New Woman can
truly mean.'
- Toronto Pearson International
Airport - 2008
Early Typewriters - Gateway to the Information Age
"Can you imagine typing without being able to see the paper? Or typing
one character at a time by sliding a bar back and forth? Early
Typewriters: Gateway to the Information Age presents the early history
of typewriters. Over 40 machines from the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century are featured in this exhibition."
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- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) - 2007-2008
Early Typewriters - Gateway to the Information Age presents
the renowned collection of Torontonian Martin Howard, the largest of
its kind in Canada. These fascinating examples of early modern
communications technology (1880s & 1890s) will be seen at the ROM
until January 2008. There are twenty selected typewriters on display
along with period ads and photographs.
William Thorsell, Director and CEO of the ROM, conveyed the
relevance of Howard’s collection as follows.
"The Royal Ontario
Museum became aware of the private collection of early typewriters
owned by Martin Howard of Toronto, in 2006. Visiting the collection,
we realized that this compilation of early writing machines was
extensive, authoritative and beautifully cared for."
“The
collection illustrates mankind’s search for a solution to a challenge,
the intriguing avenues explored, the beautiful means by which they
were expressed and the technical proficiency of the age. The invention
of the typewriter also speaks to social change, and the explosion of
communications means in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.”
- Markham Museum and Historic Village, ‘Ink to Internet’
Markham, Ontario - 2007
- The Toronto Vintage Paper Show
The Barbara Frum Atrium, CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto
October - 2006
Martin Howard, Toronto – a superb display of antique
typewriters from his personal collection. The collection, comprised of
typewriters from the very beginning of the typewriting industry, is the
largest in Canada. The collection contains many rare and historically
important typewriters, showing the remarkable diversity and beauty of the
world’s first typing machines.
 
Martin received some fan mail after bringing
his collection to the March 2006 paper show:
Hi Martin. I just want to tell you that my little nephew, Julian
(8), enjoyed meeting you and seeing all your typewriters at the Vintage
Paper show held this past Sunday. He talked about the typewriters all
the way home and told his mother how you too like to press buttons and
what happened to you when you pressed the red button at the luggage
carousel at the airport. He still has your business card, albeit
somewhat mangled. Julian was quite taken with your typewriters. We may
have a budding collector on our hands. Luckily you were at the show, as
he was bored until he saw your machines. Thanks again for taking the
time to talk to him and letting him use the machines. Luba
- Photographs by Jon Muldoon, of
the Martin Howard Collection, were displayed at The Remarkable Bean
coffee shop in the Beaches, Toronto - 2005
- Benares Historic House, Visitor Centre
Mississauga, Ontario - 2005
  
- Pavillon Jacques-Cartier, 'Montreal Breathes the Book'
Montreal, Quebec - 2005
  
 
Film
"Renowned Canadian pianist Anton
Kuerti stars in quirky short film for Bravo!"
The film plays on
the visual correspondence between an antique typewriter and a grand
piano and the pun of Kuerti and the QWERTY keyboard, all during a
performance of a Scherzo, from a Beethoven Piano Sonata.
The
typewriter used is an Underwood 1 - 1896, from the Martin Howard
Collection.
 
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