- Accession Number:
- 2004.134.49.228
- Description:
- Black and white glossy; an American Printing House for the Blind employee is operating a clamshell press; she has short, dark hair and is wearing a long-sleeved, white, button-down shirt; she is removing embossed sheets from the press with both hands; to her left is a stack of embossed pages; to her right is a stack of blank pages; a sticker with a cross on it is wedged in a switch on the machine's control panel; another press and operator is partially visible in the right background; stacks of braille pages are visible on shelves in the left background.
- Medium:
- Photographic Paper
- Print Size:
- 8" (h) x 10" (w)
- Date:
- ca. 1970
- Photographer:
- Unidentified
- History/Provenance:
- Universal/Colt�s Armory platen presses manufactured by Thomson-National became known at APH as "clamshell presses," and were adapted for braille use by removing all their inking mechanisms.
- Credit Line:
- (see provenance)
- Subjects:
- Braille
