The Evolution of a Timeless Profession

Shorthand:  Ever Evolving – Ever Adapting – One of the world’s oldest professions, shorthand traces its ancestry to the Ancient Scribes, for it was the creation of writing that has enabled societies to remember, analyze, and improve upon earlier thought.

The Gallery of Shorthand proudly brings that history to the public.  Welcome to the Gallery.

 

Mission Statement –


The affairs of a society, its organizations and governmental bodies, can be scrutinized only when its discussions are memorialized in an accurate and impartial writing.

This timeless truth led to the creation of written language in 3500 BC.  It compelled Julius Caesar in 59 BC to order that the deliberations of the Roman Senate be written.  And in 1873, reversing their practice of secret meetings, the United States Senate engaged official reporters to transcribe debates – preserved in The Congressional Record.  This same powerful tenet is fulfilled every day in the courtrooms of this building as the Official Reporters of the US District Court capture every word of proceedings for appellate and other review.

The Gallery of Shorthand celebrates shorthand reporters, who preserve the rhetoric of society from a front-row seat at everyday and historic events, and honors those who entrust them with that solemn duty.
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