- Accession Number:
- 2017.8.8
- Summary/Description:
- Original two piece telescoping cardboard shipping carton with rivet contruction and metal reinforced corners, labeled, "Sight Saving & Braille/Minneapolis." Catalog number 124 from the American Printing House for the Blind. Black paper label in print on side B and black label in braille on side A, legend reads in gold ink "Isabelle Archer Dyer Memorial Record/Talking Book/Solely For The Use Of The Blind/Recorded and Manufactured by/American Printing House for the Blind/Licensed under Dyer Patents/In 13 Records/APH 1411/Penrod/By Booth Tarkington/Copyright, 1914, by Doubleday, Page & Co./All Rights Reserved/Read by James Walton/Recorded, 1940/By Permission of the Publisher/Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc./New York/American Printing House for the Blind/Louisville, Kentucky." (Note blacked out text below "Solely for the ..." reads "Provided by the U.S. Government Through the Library of Congress.) [Narrator] Walton, James Records are numbered APH 1411 through APH 1423.
- Narrator:
- Walton, James
- Author:
- Tarkington, Booth
- History/Provenance:
- Donor found these in his Minnesota high school while gathering props for a play as a student, took them home, and kept them through several moves. Other books in the set are stamped Minneapolis Braille and Sightsaving Class.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Michael P. Lucas, 2017.8.
- Publish Date:
- 1940
- Printer:
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Place Printed:
- Louisville, KY
- Date Printed:
- 1940
- Subjects:
- Recreational reading (use for children's lit, novels, short stories, "popular" books.) Literature (use for classics, including plays.) Talking books
- Physical Description:
- 13 sound discs : rigid vinyl, 11 13/16 in. diameter; telescoping cardboard shipping carton, 13.375 x 13.375 x 2.375 in.
