Shrink wrapping textbooks, ca. 1982

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2004.134.49.179

Description: Color photograph; American Printing House for the Blind employee Carol Coy is shrink wrapping a textbook in the Shipping Department; she is standing at a Weldotron Shrink Wrap System, a machine that shrink wraps books; at the right end of the table is a roll of plastic, Coy has the plastic stretched out over a book; she is arranging the book under a seal bar which cuts and seals the plastic around the book; she will then put it into the machine which will shrink the plastic using heat; another APH employee is partially visible working at the left end of the machine.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Print Size: 10" (h) x 8" (w)

Date: ca. 1982

Photographer: Lin Caufield Photographers Inc.

Credit Line: (see provenance)

Subjects: Shipping