Accession Number: 2000.51.3
Description: Seventy-six color slides, mixture of 110 and 35mm formats, date stamps between May 1966 and January 1977. 1. APH. Display room in the rear wing of the 1883 building, first floor, looking south into the 1947 manufacturing annex. A time clock is seen through the doorway beside the door to the cafeteria. June 1969 2. Exhibit Room. March 1973 3. APH Professional Library. March 1973 4. Instructional Materials Resource Center. March 1973 5. Central Catalog. n.d. 6. Aids Consultation: Frank Franks seen at desk to right, apparently working with simple machines kit. January 1977 7. Magnifier Display. March 1973 8. Low Vision Aids Display. March 1973 9. Research Department: thermoform machine on desk at right. March 1973 10. Research Department: Ken Coy in model shop (in current maintenance area on ground floor). March 1973 11. Volunteer Braille Masters. n.d. 12. Key Punch Operators. June 1969 13. Stereotypist (Braille Plates). n.d. 14. Braille Plate Proof & Correction : Ewing Gentry, had a background in electronics during service with Air Force. Gentry helped develop the card reader stereograph. The glowing red light on the stereograph panel indicates an error. June 1969 15. Braille Plate Correction: Pauline Mueller sitting at a "Foundation Machine," according to Ron Gadson. n.d. 16. Braille Illustration (Plates): Carl Farmer had helped develop a map-making plate tooling machine, used to make graphics plates. The machines were on the 2nd floor of the 1923 annex, facing State street. APH had three of the tooling machines, the concept of which would be further developed in the 1980s into the PEARL. n.d. 17. Computer Stereograph Machine. Mach 1973 18. Computer Card Reader and Stereograph. n.d. 19. Braille Plate Proof Press: according to Ron Gadson, this press was built by former machinist Jake Steffen. March 1973 20. Braille Proof Readers: located on 2nd floor of rear wing of 1883 building. March 1973 21. Braille Paper Wetting Room: located on 1st floor of Braille floor. Fiberglass tubs would be filled with water. The worker dropped a stack of paper into the tub, then placed the stack in a drain tub, then draped the stack with plastic secured with weights. May 1966 22. Braille Press. Alba Hudspeth on clamshell press. May 1969. 23. Braille Press 24. Braille Collating 25. Braille Collating 26. Braille Thermoforming: Ron Gadson remembered this worker only as Shirley, and recalled that she was a polio survivor. Located on 1st floor where proofreading is today. March 1973 27. Braille Book Cover Making: an assembly line process where the canvas conveyor belt carries the covers from one station to the next. The red lamps heated the glue. Each worker had one job. Newton Parrish is seen in the background operating a board cutter. Located on 1st floor on KSB side. Gold leafing and stamping was right across the aisle from this station. 28. Braille Magazine Press: the Kelly B press, used in Ron Gadson's day only for braille. Three APH rotary presses are seen in the background. The red-headed woman in the foreground was "Sis" Sneider. The dark haired woman was Jane Singleton. Located on the 1st floor where HR is today. 29. Braille Magazine Stapling: an Acme Stitcher used on Reader's Digest Magazine. June 1969 30. Braille Magazine Stapling 31. Braille Magazine Packer: a folding machine used for magazines. Ron Gadson recalled that the machine never would work right. It flattened the braille. 32. Large Type Plate Making: using a light table to reformat large type graphics. June 1969. 33. Large Type Press: row of MGD-20 or A.B. Dick 380 Duplicators (offset presses that were identical but with different nameplates.) May 1966 34. Large Type Press (Copy Check) 35. Large Type Collating 36. Large Type Book Binding 37. Large Type Book Binding 38. Large Type Book Binding 39. Large Type Book Binding 40. Large Type Book Binding: Ron Gadson noted that you can see a block of raw glue on the lower shelf of the cart. 41. Large Type Cover Screening: Nancy Hehemann. Ron Gadson noted that you can see braille plates on rack behind her. 42. Large Type Cover Screening 43. Large Type Short Run Plate Machine: camera and platemaking for the APH short run process. It made a disposable paper plate for the Davidson offset presses. March 1973 44. Large Type Soft Cover Binding: the machine punched holes in the paper margins for plastic comb binding rings. 45. Talking Book Reader: Ron Gadson believed this was shot in historic "studio one" on the 2nd floor of the 1883 building. 46. Proofing Talking Books 47. Preparing Talking Book Masters: Butch Fisher in the mastering room. Scully lathe in foreground. 48. Preparing Talking Book Masters: worker in mastering room with Scully lathe behind her. 49. Silver Application on Master: worker spraying silver nitrate onto the lacquer acetate discs. Once the disc was "silvered" it was ready for the plating tanks. Located in ground floor, on KSB side by door at north end of the 1963 expansion. 50. Record Press: remembered by Ron Gadson as a "French Oiler" record press. Raw vinyl biscuits are seen stacked in upper right. March 1969 51. Record Inspection: worker remembered by Ron Gadson as "Rowena." 52. Record Packing? 53. Record Packing 54. Tape Duplication: June 1969. 55. Flexible Record Press: made by Weist Industries in Louisville (behind Bussman's Bakery off Frankfort Avenue). Ron Gadson recalled that their first design was slow. It was later redesigned and improved. A Barnett type record press is in the background. Located near Dock three. 56. Tape Duplication 57. Cassette Duplication: Betty Hardin duplicating cassettes by hand on ground floor near elevator beneath 1923 annex. Rewinding machines seen in foreground. The labels are being applied by hand. 58. Electronic Assembly, March 1972 59. Electronic Assembly 60. Riveting Record Mailers: supervised by Louise Bird, assembling cardboard mailers. June 1969 61. Labeling Record Mailers: foiling and stamping machines, stamped "Property of U.S. Govt." on the mailers. 62. Key Punch Section for Computer. June 1969 63. Computer-Reader. March 1973 64. Computer-Controls Panel. June 1969 65. Collating: Michael Business Machines Inserter, a machine collator that included an automatic stitcher and folder. It replaced the "carousel." Remembered by Ron Gadson as a "good machine but complicated." It was later replaced by a machine designed by Gene Utley. January 1977 66. Computer-Loading Tapes. June 1969 67. Computer-Printer. June 1969 68. Slate Department: Jimmy Hill, left, Marion Ellis, right. June 1969 69. Slate Assembly: Marian Ellis, using a mallet to set the slate hinges. 70. Braille Writer Dept.: Bill Watson. June 1969 71. Aids Production: John Brunck, working on parts of Simple Machines kit. March 1973 72. Painting Large World Globe 73. Map Making: John Brunck working on map. June 1969 74. Map Making: John Brunck in foreground. 75. Painting Plaques. June 1969 76. Vacuum Forming: commercial plastics oven and vacuum press, operated by "Ron Galtney's wife," according to Ron Gadson. March 1973
Date: 1969-1977
History/Provenance: Slides were kept in APH Communications Group (which became the Communications Department in 2002) until being transferred to the museum. The Communications Group produced materials about APH products.
Credit Line: APH Collection, 2000.51.
Subjects: Instructional aids, tools, and supplies Instructional materials Products Manufacturing processes Buildings Computerized typesetting Computers Braille
