Braille plate correction, ca. 1940

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2004.134.49.291

Description: Black and white glossy; an American Printing House for the Blind employee is correcting a metal braille embossing plate; she is sitting at a desk with a hammer in her right hand and a correcting tool in her left; she has short, dark, curly hair; she is wearing a pearl necklace and a dark dress; there is a stack of braille pages sitting to the right of the table; a stereotype machine is to her left; a dictionary is open on a stand behind the stereotype machine; a sighted copy of "Every Week" is sitting on a easel to the left of the stereotype; another employee is barely visible in the back right. Museum has two copies: 2004.134.49.74 and 2004.134.49.291.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Print Size: 10" (h) x 8" (w)

Date: ca. 1940

Photographer: Unidenitifed

Credit Line: (see provenance)

Subjects: Braille Stereotype machines Stereographs