C. Warren Bledsoe receiving the Alfred Allen Award

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2007.33.2.16

Description: Glossy black-and-white photograph shows Bledsoe, at left, who is wearing glasses, holding the Alfred Allen Memorial Award plaque, which was presented to him on July 20, 1977, by Louis Rives, at right, on behalf of the American Association of Workers for the Blind (AAWB) for "outstanding service to blind persons." Bledsoe's acceptance speech and Rive's presentation speech were published in the 1977 AAWB Proceedings.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: 1977

Photographer: unknown

History/Provenance: Photograph was found in the Bledsoe biographical file of the Bledsoe Manuscript Collection.

Credit Line: Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired

Subjects: Awards Photographs