2006.12.2

Slate stylus

Slate stylus; pear shaped turned hardwood handle; round steel wire blade, slight narrowing of circumference on last 1/8", blunt tip.

H-2.25 Dia-0.75 inches

ca. 1932

Perkins Institute

Watertown, MA

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.

Gift of Tommy Angell, 2006.12