Gregg Shorthand Speed Certificate
date: label: date made
content: 1944-03-14
notes: label: Description
content: Winifred Weislogel earned this white cardboard certificate on March 14, 1944, for neatly and accurately writing Gregg shorthand for five minutes at one hundred words per minute. While there are various shorthand systems, all shorthand consists of symbolic writing for words or phrases that allow the stenographer to quickly record oral dictation. Shorthand was invaluable for business records before stenography machines, dictation machines, typewriters, recorders, and personal computers. Gregg shorthand was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888 and is a phonetic shorthand based on elliptical figures. Winifred Weislogel’s secretarial training in high school taught her shorthand and typing, and she went on to a career in the U.S. Foreign Service between 1957 and 1978.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Winifred S. Weislogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0047.16
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0047.16
label: accession number
content: 1998.0047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: certificate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.5 cm x 9 cm; 6 1/2 in x 3 9/16 in