Accession Number: 2004.134.42.1-17
Description: Seventeen black-and-white glossy photographs, of which fifteen show visitors touring the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) with APH staff, and two show an APH staff meeting. .1 - Tour group at product display table (Talking Book phonograph, braillewriter, U.S. Puzzle Map, books and other products). APH Superintendent Finis Davis (far left), APH Braille Editor Marjorie Hooper (holding puzzle map), and APH Plant Manager Virgil Zickel (second from right). Framed portrait photos of past APH superintendents Susan Merwin, A.C. Ellis, and E.E. Bramlette on wall. Stamped on reverse: 922. .2 - Tour group watching employees collate braille pages at round collating table. Virgil Zickel, standing at center, hanging above him is a card with tour station number 25. Barely legible impressions of handwritten names identify six visitors: left to right, Lois G. Craddock (glasses/hat); Laura W. Mattery(sp.?); Mary C. Coll; J.W. Murphy; Lula M. Cochran; R.C. Haskins. Stamped on reverse: 431. .3 - Zickel, at center, and visitors, looking at stacks of Talking Book records. Stamped on reverse: 833. .4 - Tour group at product display table (another view of .1). Stamped on reverse: 797(?). .5 - APH staff meeting; eight people seated at table, faces turned toward camera. Staff include: Howard Oliver, Plant Engineer (far left); Samuel Ashcroft, Director of Research (2nd from left); Betty Wommack, Assistant Braille Editor (4th from left); Finis Davis, APH Superintendent (3rd from right); Mac Lee (2nd from right), Production Engineer; and Virgil Zickel, Plant Manager (far right). Stamped on reverse: 337. .6 - APH staff meeting; same as above, but with people looking forward as seated. Stamped on reverse: 337. .7 - Samuel Ashcroft, far right, and five women visitors watching an APH employee, seated at far left, use a stitching machine to bind braille pamphlet/magazine pages. Stamped on reverse: 883. .8 - APH Braille Editor Marjorie Hooper (far left) with tour group watching an employee glue pages into hard cover. Stamped on reverse: 922. .9 - Six women, including two nuns in habits, watching collation of braille pages at round collating table. Stamped on reverse: 883. .10 - Zickel (far right) with a tour group of six nuns in a recording studio. Stamped on reverse: 922. .11 - Tour group in Talking Book production area. Stamped on reverse: 883. .12 - Ashcroft (front right) talking to five women visitors. Reverse stamped: Stamped on reverse: 883. .13 - Tour group at map production area table with dissected map of U.S. Stamped on reverse: 922. .14 - Tour group in recording control room, with recording lathe visible at back left. Stamped on reverse: 922. .15 - Tour group at braille rotary press. Stamped on reverse: 922. .16 - APH Business Manager Jane Kent (far left) showing three visitors an offset printing press used for large type printing; a card with tour station number "22" hangs above the press area. Stamped on reverse: 883. .17 - Jane Kent (standing at far left) talking to five women visitors in braille stereotyping area, while a woman, seated at far left, uses a stereograph machine to emboss a braille printing plate. Stamped on reverse: 883. Note: Negatives for some of the above photos are held and are listed in Relations field.
Medium: Photographic Paper
Print Size: 3.75 x 5 in.
Date: 1956
History/Provenance: Professional photos taken for the American Printing House for the Blind, kept by the company and later transferred to the APH Museum.
Credit Line: (see provenance)
Subjects: Manufacturing processes Meetings Tours
