Accession Number: 2009.24.16.149
Description: Front: black-and-white glossy. Portrait from the waist up of a young man with medium short hair, dressed in a uniform. Background is an exterior wall with window or door frame. Reverse: "48" in pencil, "No 5" in pen. From "Explanation of photo," separate, spelling and grammar preserved: "This is a Whang Yong Uh who lost his sight in the battle--blind of whanghedo Kuwolsan in the midst of activity as a Korean Army saued by Army Burean of Medical Affairs and now learning the braille at my school, He did make up his mind to kill heself once desperating his buture. But being conuinced that new life starts out of blind eyes, now he is sending merry days.
Medium: Photographic Paper
Print Size: 3.25" (h) x 2.25" (w)
Date: 1953
Photographer: Not identified
History/Provenance: Received with John Milton Society for the Blind (JMS) records from the American Foundation for the Blind.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Adult blind War Photographs Schools for the blind and visually impaired
