The Caligraph No. 3 (1890)

The Caligraph No. 3
 
First year of production:  1890
 
Company:  The American Writing Machine Company, New York, U.S.A.
 
The Caligraph was developed by George Washington Newton Yost, a pioneer in early typewriters who promoted the original Remington, then started New American Writing Machine Co. making the Caligraph and later developed Yost typewriters with improved alignment.
 
The Caligraph is relatively light for its size. It shares the cylindrical arrangement of typebars of other early typewriters like the Remington and the Smith Premier.
 
Like other early typewriters the Caligraph is also an "upstrike" typewriter instead of a front strike typewriter. It is "blind" in that you cannot see what you type as you type it. You can easily lift up the platen to reveal the underside and what has been typed, however.
 
The Caligraph does not have a QWERTY keyboard arrangement. Also, the lower case keys, colored white, are generally arranged in the center with the black, upper case keys on the left and right sides. This differs from the full keyboard of the Smith Premier which has lower case letters on the bottom and upper case letters on the top.