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Shorthand

Here are entered general works on shorthand and shorthand for the English language.

Subdivided by system, e.g. Shorthand -- Gregg.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Business education
• Office practice
• Writing

• Abbreviations

• Shorthand -- Lindsley
• Shorthand -- Study and teaching
• Shorthand -- Young
• Shorthand, German
• Stenotypy

• Brachygraphy
• Briefhand
• Phonography
• Shorthand, English
• Stenography
• Tachygraphy

• The Amanuensis: A Series of Reading, Writing and Dictation Lessons, Carefully Arranged With Reference to a Grouping of Words Illustrative of Principles, for the Purpose of Easily and Quickly Teaching a Correct, Rapid and Legible Style of Writing for Amanuensis and Reporting Purposes, in Accordance with the Principles of Lindsley's Takigrafy (4th edition; Chicago: D. Kimball, 1889), by Duran Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clark's Definite Shorthand (Kansas City, KS: The author, 1918), by Francis Chadwick Clark
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stein-Shorthand Manual: High-Speed Shorthand for High-Speed Transcribing (Philadelphia: Stein-Shorthand, c1919)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Towndrow's Revised and Improved Text-Book of Stenography: or, Complete Guide to the Art of Writing Short-Hand (New York: C. T. Dillingham, c1886), by T. Towndrow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Introduction to the Art of Penmanship (with an appendix on shorthand; second improved edition; Hartford: O. Cooke, 1821), by Eleazer Huntington, contrib. by Thomas Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Elements of Tachygraphy: Illustrating the First Principles of the Art, With Their Adaptation to the Wants of Literary, Professioal, and Business Men (13th edition, rewrittem and re-engraved; Boston: O. Clapp and Son, 1899), by David Philip Lindsley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Your First Year of Teaching Shorthand and Transcription (second edition; Cincinnati et al.: South-Western Pub. Co., c1961), by Marion M. Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Readable Short-Hand, Self-Taught (London: E. Stanford, 1869), by Murdo Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Häufigkeitswörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache: Festgestellt Durch einen Arbeitsausschuss der Deutschen Stenographiesysteme (in German; Steglitz bei Berlin, Selbstverlag des Herausgebers; E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1898), by Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• National Machine Shorthand (St. Louis: National Shorthand Machine Co., c1917), by Ward Stone Ireland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lexicon Abbreviaturarum Quae in Lapidibus, Codicibus et Chartis Praesertim Medii-Aevi Occurrunt; Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane, Usate Nelle Carte e Codici Specialmente nel Medio-Evo (in Italian and Latin; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1899), by Adriano Cappelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Abbreviature Nella Paleografia Latina del Medio Evo (in Italian; Florence: Successori Le Monnier, 1891), by Cesare Paoli
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• Lexicon Abbreviaturarum Quae in Lapidibus, Codicibus et Chartis Praesertim Medii-Aevi Occurrunt; Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane, Usate Nelle Carte e Codici Specialmente nel Medio-Evo (in Italian and Latin; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1899), by Adriano Cappelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aevi Compendia Scribendi, Notariorum Veterum Signa Perplura, cet. Singula Tabulis Aeneis Expressa (in Latin; Hanover, Germany: B. N. Foerster and sons, 1754), by Daniel Eberhard Baring, ed. by Eberhard Johann Baring, contrib. by Jean Mabillon, Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Johann Wilhelm von Goebel, Daniel von Papenbroeck, Johann Nikolaus Hertuis, Thomas Ruddiman, Johann Gottlieb Krause, and Johann Wilhelm Waldschmidt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The ABC Book: A Pronunciation Guide (current electronic edition), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (HTML at loc.gov)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (electronic edition, 2011), by Peter W. Martin (frame-dependent HTML at Cornell)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations (electronic edition of Wiley reference) (searchable HTML at wiley.com)

• Bryant & Stratton's Counting House Book-Keeping, by Henry Beadman Bryant (page images at MOA)
• Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping Embracing Single and Double Entry, Commercial Calculations, and the Philosophy and Morals of Business, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Penmanship; Vertican Penmansip; Grammar; Punctuation and Capitalization; Double-Entry Bookkeeping; With Questions and Exercises (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (New York: T. J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940), by W. J. Eckert and New York Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (New York: T. J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940), by W. J. Eckert and New York Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Director's Report and Accounts, by British South Africa Company (partial serial archives)

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• The GAAP Gap: Corporate Disclosure in the Internet Age (Washington: AEI Press, 2000), by Robert E. Litan and Peter J. Wallinson (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• History of the Eighties: Lessons for the Future (2 volumes; 1997), by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDF files at fdic.gov)

• Ethics and Auditing (2005), ed. by Tom Campbell and Keith Houghton (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Auditing (New York: F. S. Tipson, c1904), by Frederick S. Tipson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to Understanding Audit in Trusted Systems (version 2, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

• Ethics and Auditing (2005), ed. by Tom Campbell and Keith Houghton (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Guide to Understanding Audit in Trusted Systems (version 2, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

• Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000 (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment (2 volumes; Washingon: National Academy Press, 1986-1987), ed. by Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise Tilly
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II (Case Studies and Policy Perspectives): page images with commentary at NAP

• Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations, by National Research Council Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• SpeedScript: The Word Processor for Atari Computers (1985), by Charles Brannon (HTML at atariarchives.org)

• A. L. A. Rules for Filing Catalog Cards (1942), by American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for Writers (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition of "The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers", ca. 2011), by Miles McCrimmon
  • PDF at saylor.org
  • PDF at saylor.org
• Writing for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)
• Grandpa! Grandpa! Write Stories to Me! (fourth edition, 2006), by Meyer Moldeven (HTML at AOL)

• Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, Aimé Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion, and J. B. Silvestre, ed. by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Expertise en Écritures: Étude Théorique et Pratique (in French; 1907), by Pierre Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gregory L. Ulmer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Spencerian Compendium of Penmanship (New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman and Co., c1879) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.