Accession Number: 2006.46.1
Summary/Description: The first of four shows recorded for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) radio series "A Quartet." Content of this tape as described in the radio series flier: "This unique program demonstrates how blind people get about." According to the flier, the radio programs were narrated by Herbert Marshall and Robert Trout. Leon Pearson and Gregor Ziemer, AFB Director of Public Education, were responsible for text, interviews, and production. Included is a printed AFB flier promoting the radio shows, and a typewritten form letter dated February 21, 1961 on AFB letterhead from Ziemer to "Program Director," listing available radio tapes and instructions for returning them to AFB. The open-reel recordings were made on magnetic tape.
History/Provenance: The tape was distributed by the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Department of Public Education. AFB recorded several series of public service radio shows. The Callahan Museum purchased three "A Quartet" tapes and five from "Manpower," another AFB radio series, through a collector. The tapes had been mailed parcel post in fibre-board containers to radio station WKOV in Wellston, OH, between 1960 and 1961. A flier for the "A Quartet" series notes that "AFB tape recorders traveled 5,000 miles to make the recordings . . . ."
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2006.46
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Publisher Place: New York
Publish Date: ca. 1960
Subjects: Blind Orientation and mobility
Physical Description: 1 sound tape reel (28 min., 30 sec.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.
