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one of those 'courageous women of the 1910s. it's really a brilliant 'handicapped'. great photo!

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Would be a great history lesson to compare the workspace here. In the 1960 I worked in a setup much like this.

Un pequeño lente para observar los impresioantes avances del siglo XX

• English. The picture shows a working woman. Considering her blindness, one thinks life was not fair with her. But all of us are in one sense or another limited beings. If looking at this picture, Ortega y Gasset may have said that that she lacking of is precisely what supports her. The photograph may not show a famous person, but it shows a working one—somebody that went beyond natural injustice and apparently transcended it too. • Castellano rioplatense. Con los auriculares puestos, esta taquígrafa ciega de principios del siglo XX fue fotografiada mientras trabajaba. Al considerar su ceguera, uno piensa que la vida no fue justa con ella. Pero, de alguna manera u otra, todos somos seres limitados. Importante es lo que hacemos con lo que la vida sí nos dio. Lo que nos falta es lo que nos sostiene, decía Ortega y Gasset. Esta foto acaso no muestre un ser famoso, pero muestra una taquígrafa ciega en plena labor. La imagen sugiere que ella, a la Naturaleza, la trascendió. Mariano Akerman - « plus ultra » → www.flogup.com/akermariano/845258 To meditate | Para meditar → efimeronte.page.tl/Atypical-Beings.htm

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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.

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 1915 ad: books.google.com/books?id=dndQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA68&am...

Flicker user César Astudillo

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.