Accession Number: 2008.7.1
Summary/Description: Brown paper cover; leaves stitched with thread. Single-sided embossing. Issue contains pages [37], 38-49, and an unnumbered page that has a list of Kneass' publications. "Published monthly" -- t.p. Napoleon B. Kneass, Jr., of Philadelphia, devised his raised letter system for tactile reading in 1867. He combined the capital letters of Philadelphia Line type with lower case letters like those of Boston Line type. His magazine was probably the first to be published in the U.S. for blind readers.
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2008.7
Publisher: Napoleon B. Kneass, Jr.
Publisher Place: Philadelphia
Publish Date: April 1875
Subjects: Periodicals Periodicals for the blind and visually impaired
Physical Description: 1 v. (1 issue) of raised type ; 9 x 12 in. Volume 9, no. 4.
