Accession Number: 2007.18.2
Subtitle: Fifty years of Braille in Berkeley; Berkeley-West Contra-Costa County Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1928-1978
Summary/Description: Typewritten and bound manuscript about the Braille Division of the Berkeley Chapter of the American Red Cross. Includes a list of volunteers from 1928-1978. Green clothbound boards with gilt-stamped lettering on front cover.
Author: May, Jeanne D.
History/Provenance: The Braille Division of the Berkeley Chapter of the American Red Cross began in 1928, with Daisy Beck as chairman. Volunteers in the Division provided braille transcription services, primarily producing braille materials for local schools, and offered braille transcription classes. In 1936, the Division added a braille bindery service. Books were bound by hand, using the "Berkeley Method," until the process was mechanized in 1976. In 1977, the Berkeley Chapter merged with the West Contra Costa Chapter of the American Red Cross. In 1988, Alameda County and the Berkeley-West Contra Costa Chapters merged to form the East Bay Chapter. This book and other materials of the Braille Division of the Berkeley Chapter were donated to the Callahan Museum by the California School for the Blind in 2007. The school acquired the materials earlier in the year from Charlene Okamoto, Assistant Director of Special Services, Fremont Unified School District in California, who had received the materials as a gift from heirs of Nicki Cimino, the last member of the Berkeley Chapter.
Credit Line: Gift of California School for the Blind, 2007.18
Publisher Place: Berkeley, CA
Publish Date: 1978
Subjects: Braille Transcription Volunteers Bookbinding
Physical Description: 26 p. ; 11 1/4 x 9 x 1/2 in.
