Gas & Coke Company Letter about storage of LAMPS

At the dawn of the 20th Century the hand-written letter was King! The first commercially available typewriters were produced by Remington in the 1870s but were prohibitively expensive so were only found in large businesses. It is widely considered that the introduction of the typewriter opened-up the working world to women.  Typing classes became popular in the late 1800s, and by 1901 there were 166,000 female clerks in Britain – up from 2,000 fifty years before.