Making Books the Blind Can Read

Article, Magazine

Accession Number:
2002.126
Summary/Description:
One-page article disbound from the Illustrated Review, page 28; consists of 9 photos with captions, showing the process of making braille books. Photos include: machine for making raised-line drawings on plates, map embossed on paper, embossed forms for printing a newspaper, blind assembly workers, braille alphabet, press with embossed plates, braille writer, stereograph, and subscriber reading an embossed map. "Making Books the Blind Can Read" --headline at top of page. Photos may be of the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind embossing plant in New York.
Publisher:
[from] Illustrated Review
Publish Date:
Sep-18
Subjects:
Blind. Books and reading. Manufacturing aids, tools, and supplies. Tactile printing history.
Physical Description:
14 x 10 3/4 in.