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.