New Talking Book Series Announced

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1094

Description: BW print: left to right, Dr. Robert J. McCracken, Winthrop H. Battles, and Rev. Sam H. Beamesderfer, wearing dark suits and holding rigid vinyl record LPs; stamped on back, "Religious News Service Photo"; captioned "New York--Talking books for the blind are presented..."

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: 1962

Photographer: Religious News Service Photo

History/Provenance: McCracken was minister of the Riverside Church and the narrator of 15 minute daily readings from the New Testament on the church's radio station WRVR. Battles was president of the John Milton Society. Beamesderfer was minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Saginaw, MI, member of the JMS Board, and blind himself.

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24

Subjects: Talking Books Bible