Private collections
Dublin Core
Title
Private collections
Description
Material from various private collections.
Date
nineteenth century
twenty-first century
Rights
Various. Please consult individual items for details.
Language
English
Brachygraphy shorthand
Collection Items
Automated character extraction
An example of automated character extraction from a shorthand exercise
Charles Dickens's Norfolk Street Residence
A modern photograph of the facade of Dickens's home in Norfolk Street, London
Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Gurney
A portrait of Thomas Gurney, inventor of the Gurney shorthand system.
Alphabet Table from Gurney's Brachygraphy manual
A table of shorthand symbols for letters of the alphabet, words that the same symbols can stand for, and spelt characters
Table of 'Arbitrary Characters for Prepositions and Terminations' from Gurney's Brachygraphy manual
A table of shorthand symbols that stand for arbitrary characters
Rules for Representing Vowels and a Table of Arbitrary Characters from Gurney's Brachygraphy manual
A description of how to represent vowels in the Brachygraphy shorthand system, as well as a list of arbitrary characters that begin with upper or lower case letters