- Accession Number:
- 2009.23.4a-b
- Description:
- Perkins Institute Model 13 Desk Slate; rectangular wooden board with parallel grooves in sides, seven pairs of holes in grooves to hold pins in the slate; nickel plated brass paper clamp riveted to top of board, clamp has a piano hinge with a steel wire pin, two teeth on bottom pass through holes in the top plate of the clamp; nickel plated brass slate, four rows of 34 cells, cells have dimpled cutouts to hold stylus point in proper position; raised bead horizontally on top of slate between the second and third row of cells; steel pin on piano hinge; single pin (down) on top frame of slate passes through matching hole in bottom frame; bottom plate of slate has six hollows punched under each cell to help form proper dots.
- Height:
- 12.75
- Width:
- 10.5
- Depth:
- 0.75
- Maker:
- Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution
- Place of Origin:
- Watertown, MA
- Collection:
- APH Collection
- History/Provenance:
- APH Collection
- Credit Line:
- APH Collection, 2009.23.
- Subjects:
- Boards (writing) Braille Slates. Tactile writing
- Dimension Notes:
- overall, board
- Made:
- Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution
- Material:
- Wood, steel, nickel, brass
- Updated:
- 07/22/2015
