The Daugherty in this collection came in summer of 2020 and was found in Nova Scotia Canada. In untouched condition, still retaining the original leather on the case lid.

The Daugherty was a unusual design having overly long typebars, for a period of time the Daugherty was built by the Crandall typewriter company in Groton NY. production of the Daugherty was from 1890 to 1898 when the company was renamed the Pittsburg visible. The Machine was patented in 1891. Many of the Daugherty’s produced had manufacturing defects. This could have easily lead to a very early demise to the company fortunately it did not. Daugherty moved to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and continued to be produced there for the remainder of the time that the Daugherty was produced. The entire type basket in the Daugherty could be removed easily with 3 screws allowing it to be replaced with other type styles or languages. The keyboard is of the single shift qwerty arrangement as standard. The Daugherty went on to become the Pittsburgh Visible which had great success. The earliest iteration of the Pittsburgh visible (the model 9) looks almost identical to the Daugherty, but is most easily told apart by the lack of an identification tag located under the space bar. Some of the earliest model 9's used left over parts from Daugherty production, and a few machines have been found that retain the holes for the screws which would attach the name tag under the space bar.