Accession Number: 2019.26.53-60
Description: Series of eight (8) images showing teacher trainees being taught cane use wearing sleepshades: .53 BW print; young woman wearing scarf, coat, and bell-bottom blue jeans on sidewalk with rigid white longcane with pencil tip held in front of her, tip touching the pavement; shrubs and low brick wall in background. .54 BW print; young woman wearing quilted thigh-length coat and jeans clutches her long cane to her abdoman as she stands in front of a glass door; a striped barber pole is to the right; the sleep shades the woman wears are atypical, more like safety goggles; a woman with long hair pulled back wearing a thigh-length dress and demin coat stands at left holding a purse and a clipboard. .55 BW print; young woman in calf-length skirt and sweater crossing a street with a long cane; trainer Pete Wurzburger walks with her, his head turned to watch her; the sun is bright and their shadows are clear on the pavement; in the background a busy steet scene with shops, a city bus, and cars (1978). .56 BW print; young woman in long shapeless dark coat and western boots, her long "Equipoise" cane in front of her; her hair is pulled back with a scarf; she walks on a sidewalk beside a tall chainlink fence; a man stands at right, watching her, wearing dark slacks and a jacket. .57 BW print; woman with long hair and wearing a zip-up coat stands in front of a barber pole and a glass storefront sign reading "Jim's 40 & Taraval Barber Shop"; Pete Wurzburger, in a tweed sportcoat stands at right watching her. .58 Color print; woman with long hair wearing blue jeans and a blue pull-over walks toward the camera, a long cane held in front of her sweeping; a bicycle leans against a railing next to her, and absract art sculpture adorns a white brick wall behind her. .59 BW print; in foreground, Pete Wurzburger positions the hands of a man in sleepshades into the cross guard position; behind them a row of women holding sleep shades in their hands or pulled down onto their neck watch the demonstration. .60 Color print; woman in jeans and a short-sleeved light top; her right leg is wrapped with a leg brace; her right hand sweeps with a red tipped long cane, her left hand leans on a support cane; she stands on a sidewalk boarded with flowers, a suburban home fills the background; in ink on back, "Unidentified O&M student -- 1984"; focus is fuzzy.
Date: various
History/Provenance: From the collection of O&M pioneer Berdell "Pete" Wurzburger.
Credit Line: Gift of Mike Meteyer, 2019.26.
Subjects: Orientation and mobility
