Printing plate of Cortez Peters

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is printing plate of champion typist Cortez Peters Sr. was featured in an article noting that Peters had donated typewriters to help the government in a drive for the Army and Navy's typewriters for the War effort. Peters was an international speed typing champion who could type more than 160 words per minute. He was also the founder of the Cortez Peters Schools, the first of which he founded in 1938. A printing plate of Cortez W. Peters, Sr. He is seated, wearing a suit, in front of typewriter. The back of the plate has an inscription that reads [Cortez W. Peters / 1300].

Catalog date

December 1942

Recorded places

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Black Press; Business; Mass media; World War II

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