318949.0748 Female, Miss Margaret Owen, standing at desk with typewriter. Gridded background and three motion clocks visible.
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content: Card Number: 51
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content: Category: typing study
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content: Collection: NMAH
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content: Copy negative: 94-1811
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content: Gilbreth image: GL450
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content: Information on photo: GL450
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content: Job name: Remington Typewriter, Ilion New York
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content: Original caption: "Studying the motions of champion typists. In 1915 I was particularly interested in finger motions on such work as adding machines and the Monotype machines and I asked the two leading typewriter companies to send me the best demonstrators of their machines. This they did and I studied their motions and recorded them on the film and by means of chronocyclegraphs. It was not until some time after this that the Remington people asked me to develop a champion typist for the world for their advertising department. The result was that we did furnish them a champion, not only of the United states but finally as champion mateur of the world, whose picture is #16245 and #16188. Miss Hortense Stollnitz in 1916 wrote 147 words gross and after deducting 5 wrods per mistake was credited with 137 words net per minute for a half an hour. The best previous record was the same net with 5 less words per minute gross and consequently the Remington people were extrememly pleased." (GPP NF1/0019 vol. III).
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content: Location of subject: Gilbreth Motion Study Laboratory, Providence RI
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content: Subject names: Margaret Owen, Underwood Typewriter's reigning professional champion operator, whom FBG invited to Providence in April 1916.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
label: Collection Creator
content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
label: Collection Creator
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916, April c.
container: label: Container
content: Box 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives