318949.0750, Female (Hortense Stollnitz) standing next to Remington typewriter which is on a gridded desk.
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content: Card Number: 53
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content: Category: typing study
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content: Collection: NMAH
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content: Copy negative: 94-1813
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content: Gilbreth image: c. 16167 but not identical
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content: Job name: Remington Typewriter, Ilion New York
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content: Related captions: The following captions courtesy of both Elspeth Brown and Dave Ferguson: The subject is Hortense Stollnitz.

16151 Motions of hands and wrists of a champion typist. If the forearm moves forward and back in reaching the various banks of keys instead of having the motions done in the fingers then that operator can never be expected to write more than 125 to 130 words per minute. This is one of the best examples of the law that an operator must be taught right motions first or will always have the interference of habit. We have several very smart operators who cannot get over the 125 mark because they learn the wrong motions first of moving the elbow forward and back instead of the fingers.

16180 Motion Studies of typists in our laboratory. This set of study was made for the purpose of delivering a champion of the world to the Remington Typewriter Company.1

6188 This shows Miss Stollnitz, champion of the world who has written faster than anyone up to the time these pictures were taken. Her gold medal can be seen in her left hand in #16245.

16213 Mr. P.L. Waters teaching the World's Champion Amateur Typist in Gilbreth Laboratory, 1916. Gross number of words per minute from strange copy, 147. Net number of words per minute (after penalizing, 5 words for each and every mistake, 137 words per minute. This gross is 5 words more than ever known before and the net is equal to the best professional record.

16222 Anna Gold and Hortense Stollnitz, Champions 1916 on Remington Typewriter. Miss Stollnitz in 1917 wrote 17 more words per minute and kept it up for an hour than was ever heard of previously in the history of the art of typing. Anna Gold on the left wrote the second highest number of words gross but they both lost the first prize due to mistakes in spelling they being penalized five words for each word mispelled.

16246 Two world champions, Miss Anna Gold, national champion in Chicago, 1916 and in New York 1917, she wrote 150 words in 1 minute from strange copy without a mistake, this being the highest record ever heard of up to that time. Miss Hortense Stollnitz who, in 1916 wrote the largest number of words gross and equaled the net record of the world, namely 147 words gross and 137 words net. The typists in the contest that time were penalized 5 words in the net for each an every mistake in spelling, spacing, etc. that they made in the gross.

16247 Anna Gold and Hortense Stollnitz, Champions 1916 on Remington Typewriter. Miss Stollnitz in 1917 wrote 17 more words per minute and kept it up for an hour than was ever heard of previously in the history of the art of typing. Anna Gold on the left wrote the second highest number of words gross but they both lost the first prize due to mistakes in spelling they being penalized five words for each word mispelled.

16249A Miss Stollnitz and her gold medal, as Champion Amateur of the world.

16249K Miss Stollnitz and her gold medal, for becoming International Champion of the World. [in 1916.]Miss Anna Gold with her gold medal which she received fro becoming International Champion in September 1916.

GL-1630 Miss Anna Gold in foreground, and Miss H. Stollnitz in background in our laboratory in Providence. Five months after this picture was taken Miss Anna Gold won the Championship of American Amateur Class, and Miss Stollnitz won second prize Amateur Championship of America 1916, and one month later Miss Stollnitz won the International Championship, Amateur Class, 1916. Miss Stollnitz record of 147 words gross per minute is the record of the world, exceeding all other records, professional and otherwise, 5 words per minute. Her net record is 137 words per minute, and equals the highest record ever made by a professional, altho she was in the amateur class.
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content: Location of subject: Gilbreth motion study laboratory, Providence, RI
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content: Subject names: Hortense Stollnitz
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
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content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
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content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0621 to 318949.0840
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content: 1916
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content: Box 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Negatives