Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1097-1104
Description: BW prints; .1097: Older man with white hair and wrinkled skin sits at a table, holding open a large print magazine; he wears a plaid shirt and dark pants; 5 x 7"; .1098: Man with short hair combed back stands, holding open a large print magazine, John Milton Magazine; he wears a checked sport coat and eyeglasses; stamped "Sam Vandivert Photographer, New York"; 5 x 7.125"; .1099: Same subject as .1098, but arranged in portrait oriention rather than landscape; 7.125 x 5"; .1100: African-American woman smiles as she reads a large print magazine, John Milton Magazine; woman has ear-length dark hair and wears a print dress; 4.5 x 3.5"; .1101: Two children reading braille in an aisle of library shelves loaded with books; a boy sits on the floor with his legs out in front of him, a large braille book on his lap; a girl leans back against the shelving, a book on her raised leg; stamped "Jul 31 1942"; captioned "NY Inst."; 7.25 x 4.5"; .1102: Woman with short hair leans over a phonograph, placing the tone arm on a record LP; she wears a dark suit with a bow at her neck and sits on an upholstered chair; captioned "Workers With Youth, Light in the Darkness, January 1961, Listening to John Milton Talking Book Magazine"; 7 x 5"; .1103 African-American girl in black robe sits at a desk, reading a braille booklet; captioned "Dec. 62"; 5 x 6"; .1104: Adults sit in three rows of folding chairs in a classroom, facing a man standing in front of room wearing dark glasses beside a phonograph on a table; captioned "Blind teacher and adult sunday school class--using John Milton's Recorded Sunday School Lessons"; 4.125 x 5".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Photographer: Sam Vandivert
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Blind children Blind persons Braille Large type books Libraries Magazine covers Reading Reading devices Sunday schools Talking book machines Talking books
