The type case from the museum’s collection is made of fabric. It was used by journalists to store numbers and letters for letterpress typing. Such items were necessary so that journalists could work on and publish an issue in field conditions. During the Great Patriotic War, they were used near areas where partisan detachments fought with German penal military units.

A 2018 issue of the daily socio-political Belarus newspaper Zviazda noted,

The numbers and letters stored in such type cases were often fashioned from random materials, including wood. Journalists cut out cliches for illustrations — cartoons, maps and drawings — using bark or linoleum.

During the Great Patriotic War, there were many underground papers printed on birch bark, for instance, the newspaper of partisan detachments under the command of comrades K. and S. “Partisan Revenge” and “Partisan Truth”.

New equipment was also used, which, by special order, was made by the mechanic of Polespechat, Fyodor Makarovich Piltsienko. The newspaper Zviazda wrote that in December 1942, he “designed a portable typewriter that was suitable for underground journalism. It was lighter (weighed about 12–15 kilograms) and could be quickly hidden. <…> In 1943, over 160 units were sent to reporters who worked behind enemy lines. In two years, about 150 tons of paper and about 100 typesetters were also transported to the occupied territory of Belarus.”