Skip to main content

Go back

Typewriters and children’s games

This black and white photograph, taken outdoors, shows a baby in a park playing with a ball in the foreground. Left of the child, a young boy is standing on the grass. Three adults are sitting in the back. The woman in the middle is typing on a typewriter resting on a small table in the grass.

Denise Laurin Desgagnés at work, surrounded by family, 1957

Photographer unknown

Source: collection of Hubert Desgagnés

Even in the warm summer months, the wives of navigators work tirelessly. Administrative and clerical duties do not take vacations!