| Credit line |
Gift of Tommy Angell, 2006.12 |
| Date |
ca. 1932 |
| Description |
Slate stylus; pear shaped turned hardwood handle; round steel wire blade, slight narrowing of circumference on last 1/8", blunt tip. |
| Dimensions |
H-2.25 Dia-0.75 inches |
| Made |
Perkins Institute |
| Material |
Wood, steel |
| Object ID |
2006.12.2 |
| Object Name |
Stylus |
| Place of Origin |
Watertown, MA |
| Provenance/History |
Mrs. Ethel Angell was born in Cleveland and moved with her family to Temp, AZ as a child. A schoolteacher, she married her husband Phillip in 1921 while attending UC Berkeley. In the 1930s, she joined a Red Cross class in Berkeley to learn braille transcription. Her daughter, Tommy, remembered her mother working on the transcriptions while she and her brother swam or played at the park. Red Cross certification was obtained at the time by passing a written test and submitting a braille "manuscript" of 50 or more transcribed pages. This stylus was used with slate 2006.12.1 to prepare her manuscript. |
| Search Terms |
Perkins School for the Blind (MA) |
| Subjects |
Blind.
Printing and writing systems.
Aids for the blind and visually handicapped.
Instructional aids, tools, and supplies.
Boards.
Slates. |
| Title |
Slate stylus |
| Used |
Angell, Ethel F. |
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