In the late 1890s, several companies intensified the battle for dominance of the typewriter market by venturing into overseas sales.  An illustrated advertisement in the January 16, 1897 issue of Harper’s Weekly for the Daugherty Visible typewriter included monthly sales figures from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific.  That trend in the typewriter market reflected an overall expansion of American industry in international trade, as reported by Ray Stannard Baker in the February 16, 1901 issue.  His article, “The American Commercial Invasion of the World,” which was sympathetic to U. S. economic expansion abroad, was accompanied by a photograph of an American typewriter in Japan.

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many companies in various industries began cooperating through informal associations or by legally merging their corporations.  Under the boldfaced headline “Expansion, Progress, Efficiency”—common American catchwords in the early-twentieth century—an ad in the April 13, 1912 issue announced the consolidation of the sales organizations of the Remington, Smith Premier, and Monarch typewriter companies.

2) February 16, 1901, p. 175, col. 2
illustration, “The American Type-Writer in Japan”

3) April 13, 1912, p. 26, col. 2-3
ad, announces consolidation of sales organizations of Remington, Smith Premier, and Monarch typewriter

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