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Wiedost (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    See Wiedost (LOC)

R. Miller (LOC)

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  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Rosalie Miller using what appears to be a music typewriter. I've been unable to identify the model – and there were only a handful c.1918, so perhaps this is not a music typewriter. While there are many sources ... the one I've found more appropriate to music typewriters is from Music Printing History.
  • Art Siegel said:
    see R. Miller (LOC)
  • Art Siegel said:
    Not a music typewriter, "This machine is the Blick Featherweight and is a development of the earlier Model 5 with an aluminium frame. Possibly the lightest portable typewriter ever produced, the Featherweight was marketed as the 'Five Pound Secretary'. " It had a changeable typewheel, too. Photos and a detailed description of how it worked at collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/388118
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Nicely done Art Siegel!   It's just like you! ;) I love the photograph by César Astudillo! It's so interesting that there were these "featherweight" typewriters early on, and they seemingly just became bigger and heavier through the years. And the similarity between the Blick's rotating type wheel (1910) and IBM Selectric's type balls 50 years later is amazing. (Blick offered 170 different type wheels according to the ad you found!) As an aside, while searching earlier for music typewriters I noted that "type writer" appears to have begun as two words... and followed the usual sequence of becoming hyphenated and then one word -- albeit over a relatively short timeline.
  • Art Siegel said:
    That typewheel is pretty amazing. I also like that there is no ribbon, and the typewheel inks itself on an ink roller, held up by that big metal arc piece, on the way down to the paper. There are a lot of words like that, aren't there? The hyphen from email seems to have finally disappeared.

Kath. McGirr, Deaf, Dumb & Blind. (LOC)

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  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Katherine "Katie" McGirr was about eight years old when she survived exposure during an 1888 blizzard, blind and deaf. Two years later she was admitted to the New York Institute for the Deaf. She's mentioned by name in Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life." In her 20s, she was considered to be able to read more different kinds of text for the blind than anyone else (braille, plus five other systems).
  • Ryan (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks pennylricharsca for this information about Katie McGirr. We'll fill in some of the information the next time we update.