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From the James Normal Hall home museum. James Norman Hall is an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, a series of historical novels co-authored with Charles Bernard Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn's Island (1934).

This photo appears to show him at a different machine that looks more like a standard:<br />

It's an early 40's Royal Quiet De Luxe (it appears to have a tabulator key in the top right). Compare with: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Royal.Quiet+De+Luxe.72.bmys Note the rectangular shift keys which didn't start until late 1940.