Accession Number: 2005.12.3
Scope & Content: Bi-fold brochure of Harrison & Seifried "Sole Manufacturers of the Hall Braille Writers and the Stereotype Maker." Includes an illustration and description of the Stereotype Maker and of the Hall Braille-Writer. The latter is listed at a price of $13.00 each, or $12.00 in lots of six or more.
Creator: Harrison & Seifried
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Administrative History: The inventions of the Hall Braille Writer and the Stereotype Machine were conceived by Frank Hall, superintendent of the Illinois School for the Blind. Hall took the Hall Braille Writer prototype, created by local gunsmith and machinist Gustave Seiber, to the Munson Typewriter Company in Chicago, where Superintendent T.B. Harrison and designer Samuel J. Seifried created six pilot models, delivering them to Hall on May 27th, 1892. Harrison and Seifried soon left Munson and began manufacturing the braillewriter full time, along with the Hall Stereotyper, available in 1893, and later a tactile mapmaking machine. When the partnership of Harrison and Seifried dissolved, Samuel Seifried continued the business until his death in 1912.
Subjects: Braille Braillewriters Stereotype machines Mechanical writing Printing plates