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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

THE PHONOGRAPHIC TEACHER

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1889

Overview

Brown paper cover over pale green cover (with black lettering and design). The word Teacher written in ink on paper cover. Also written in ink at top of title page is Geo. Cooper 5th Feby. 1890. Many pages have ink or pencil notations. The book is a guide to practical acquaintance with the art of Phonograhy or Phonetic Shorthand. 46 pages, illustrated, contents and index pages. Paragraph on title page reads Who that is much in the habit of writinghas not often wished for some means of expressing by two or three dashes of the pen that which as things are it requires such an expenditure of time and labour to commit to paper: Our present mode of communication must be felt to be cumbersome in the last degree; unworthy of these days of invention: we require some means of bringing the operations of the mind and of the hand into close correspondence. - English Review.

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cwa-org-51-B2005.99

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PITMAN, Sir Isaac

Keywords

Education - Shorthand

Pitman's Shorhand

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Statement of significance

Text book teaching the basics of Pitman's Shorthand with excercises.

Albany Historical Society Inc

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