- unitid
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{"value"=>"765", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 765", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1888-1917", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1888/1917"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1888
- date_inclusive_end
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1917
- keydate
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1888
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1888
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1917
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Isaac Strange Dement papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".4 linear foot (2 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Isaac Strange Dement (1855-1928), stenographer, publisher and teacher, was the official reporter of the Eighth Judicial System of Michigan, editor of the National Stenographer, and founder of Dement College in Chicago (1897). Collection contains correspondence, legal documents, shorthand notes, scrapbook, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1893, consists of letters of introduction for Dement. Legal documents are affidavits attesting to Dement's shorthand speed; copyright, 1888-1906, for his publications; and bills of sale, 1897. Also, shorthand notes, clippings from shorthand periodicals, pamphlet, and scrapbook of clippings regarding Dement's career."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Isaac Strange Dement papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Dement, Isaac Strange, 1855-1928", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Isaac Strange Dement (1855-1928), stenographer, publisher and teacher; born in Benton County, Missouri, July 29, 1855 and lived most of his life in Chicago where he died.</p> <p>Dement was the official reporter of the Eighth Judicial System of Michigan, editor of the <em render=\"underline\">National Stenographer</em> (periodical), and founder of Dement College in Chicago (1897).</p> <p>Dement learned Benn Pitman stenography, and later Andrew Jackson Graham's stenography. Dement revised Grahams' Pitman, so, that he could write short-hand at a faster speed. In a controversial claim, Dement stated that he could write 402 w. p. m. This claim was challenged by the <em render=\"underline\">New York Sun</em> and <em render=\"underline\">Chicago Tribune</em>. The latter promptly challenged Dement to a speed test which resulted with Dement timed at 312 w. p. m. The loss in speed was attributed to a defective manifold ัะพัั from which Belle Dement (Mrs. Isaac S. Dement) read.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Dement Papers, 1888-1917, contains letters, legal documents, shorthand notes, printed matter and, a scrapbook relating to Pitman shorthand.</p> <p>The letters, 1893, are letters of introduction for Dement. The documents are affidavits attesting to Dements' shorthand speed of 402 w. p. m.; Library of Congress copyrights for Dements' publications, 1888-1906 and, bills of sale, 1897.</p> <p>The shorthand notes are Dements' monographs Speed book No. 2 and No. 3 and miscellaneous notes for court cases. The printed matter is assorted clippings from shorthand periodicals and also a pamphlet <em render=\"underline\">Message to Garcia</em> by Elbert Hubbard (1917). The scrapbook contains an assortment of newspaper clippings regarding Dements' career.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>1950, from Ionia Dement Nooney (daughter of Isaac Dement)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Valerie Wingfield, 1/31/1989</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.4 linear feet (2 boxes)