Accession Number: 2017.8.5
Summary/Description: Original metal edge cardboard mailing container and paper record sleeves included. Catalog number 35 from the American Printing House for the Blind, recorded under the first APH contract with the Library of Congress. 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 26 Records/Copyright, 1930, by/Houghton Mifflin Co./All Rights Reserved/The Last of the Mohicans/or, A Narrative of 1757/ By James Fenimore Cooper/Read by Hugh Sutton/Recorded 1938/By Permission of the Publisher/Houghton Mifflin Co./Boston/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] Sutton, Hugh
Narrator: Sutton, Hugh
Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
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: 1938
Printer: American Printing House for the Blind
Place Printed: Louisville, KY
Date Printed: 1938
Subjects: Recreational reading (use for children's lit, novels, short stories, "popular" books.) Literature (use for classics, including plays.) Talking books
Physical Description: 26 sound discs : rigid vinyl, 11 13/16 in. diameter; telescoping cardboard shipping carton, 13.375 x 13.375 x 2.375 in.
