Blind stenographer using dictaphone (LOC)

she was soon deaf too after turning up her iPod too much

International Business Machines (IBM) International Portable Orchestral Device (IPOD)- before Apple bought the rights, since IBM couldn't market right.

Date inscribed on negative, in reverse: 4/27/11.

Photographer: Byron, New York (logo on original photo, only partially visible here).

Blind stenographer using dictaphone (LOC) by The Library of Congress.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Blind stenographer using dictaphone

[between 1910 and 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09147

Call Number: LC-B2- 2191-9

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Comments

danesller0127 says:

one of those 'courageous women of the 1910s. it's really a brilliant 'handicapped'. great photo!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

LANCERIKA says:

Awesome Vintage*~*
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

vkgray says:

Would be a great history lesson to compare the workspace here. In the 1960 I worked in a setup much like this.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

instituto altior says:

Un pequeño lente para observar los impresioantes avances del siglo XX
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

akermariano says:

• 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
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

rjones0856 says:

Is that a picture of Andrew Carnegie on the wall? If this was also taken at the NY Association for the Blind, it would make sense -- he gave them $114,000:

www.archive.org/stream/manualofpublicbe00carn /manualofpub...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

suzi's photos says:

The title for this picture had me stumped. A stenographer writes shorthand, and a typist types on a typewriter. After researching, I've discovered that machines invented around this time had typebars that produced understrokes called "blind writers". Machines with braille only had six (6) keys. Therefore, I don't think this woman was blind. Great picture though.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) says:

The name "Dictaphone" was trademarked by the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1907, which soon became the leading manufacturer of such devices. This perpetuated the use of wax cylinders for voice recording. They had fallen out of favor for music recordings, in favor of disc technology. Dictaphone was spun off into a separate company in 1923 under the leadership of C. King Woodbridge.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictaphone
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

jwcallahan says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Symbols of Our Past, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

pennylrichardsca says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Rob Ketcherside says:

This photo is dated 4/27/1911. This should be taken at a display at the first Blind Worker's Exhibition.

"While [President Taft] spoke, a blind stenographer "took notes" on a specially prepared machine..."

See articles in the New York Times, for exampe:
4/16/1911 p 16
4/23/1911 p 9
4/27/1911 p 3 (describes stenographer transcribing President Taft's speech)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

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