Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1404
Description: BW print; young Japanese men in dark uniforms sit on upholstered furniture around two low tables, one with a portable phonograph playing a record LP and another with a stack of open cardboard boxes filled with vinyl records in sleeves; the men have braille volumes open on their laps; another man, in a gray double breasted suit, stands beside the phonograph; captioned "Blind University students listening to talking book records and reading braille books, which with the machines came from America. Takeo Iwahashi is Director of the Lighthouse for the Blind, Osaka, Japan."
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: 1952
History/Provenance: From "The Mainichi," January 5, 1952: "Three Talking Book machines and nearly 2000 records, together with 22 books in Braille have arrived as gifts for blind students in Japan. They were sent by the American Foundation for the Blind, John Milton Society and American Bible Society to the Japan Blind University Students Association..."
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Braille Japan Talking book machines Talking books Universities & colleges
