Milwaukee Public Museum

The Milwaukee Public Museum will preserve the Carl P. Dietz Typewriter and Business Machine Collection, the largest such collection in the United States, with some 900 typewriters and 200 to 300 other business machines. The project team will clean each machine, removing it from its current location and creating a space for researchers and collectors to access the collection, and provide an automated database with digital images for curatorial and scholarly use and Web resources for the general public. This collection will allow visitors and researchers to explore the development of business productivity in the United States.