Accession Number: 2006.54.2a.8
Subtitle: Report of a Committee of the American Social Science Association, at the General Session in Detroit, Michigan, May 1875
Summary/Description: Report contains the committee's review of S.P. Ruggles' inventions for printing tactile reading materials and manufacturing educational apparatus to be used in the instruction of blind students, as well as the committee's intent to support Ruggles' proposition for setting up a central publishing establishment for books and educational aids. Report is bound in a volume of APH annual reports.
Author: American Social Science Association
History/Provenance: Report was in a bound collection of APH annual reports. The American Social Science Association was founded in 1865 to bring together individuals of "special talents" to study contemporary social science issues.
Credit Line: APH Archives, 2006.54
Publisher: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers
Publisher Place: Boston
Publish Date: 1875
Subjects: Blind Books and reading Printing and writing systems Instructional aids, tools, and supplies Tactile printing history
Physical Description: 10 p. ; 8.25 x 5.5 in.