Landis Erasing Shield
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
notes: label: Description
content: This small plastic template, also called an erasing shield, contains a variety of curves and a straight bar. It covered correct typing to make it easier to erase errors. A mark at the top reads: THE "LANDIS" (/) PAT D NOV 27 1900.
label: Description
content: The template was patented by Mary A. Brown of Washington, D.C., on November 27, 1900.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement] “Typewriting Made Perfect. The “Landis” System,” <I>Typewriter and Phonographic World</I>, 8 #6, February, 1902, p. ix. E.S. Bass of New York listed as distributing agent.
label: Description
content: Mary A. Brown, “Erasing-Shield for Type-writers,” U.S. Patent 662,591, November 27, 1900.
label: Description
content: Mary A. Brown, <I>Typewriting Made Perfect. The "Landis”</I>, M. A. Brown: New York, 1901.
label: Description
content: <I> Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co.</I>, New York, 1909, p. 293. Keuffel & Esser’s model #3411.
label: Description
content: <I> Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co.</I>, New York, 1921, p. 222. The erasing shields shown here are not in the form of Baker’s invention.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. C. B. Schmeltzer in Memory of C. B. Schmeltzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3110.18
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3110.18
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 8.7 cm x 12.8 cm; 3/32 in x 3 7/16 in x 5 1/32 in