Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1411-1422
Description: .1411: Japanese boys sit around a rectangular table with clear glasses in front of them; two young women, possibly teachers, sit in back right, smiling at two boys at right who grin mischieviously; 4.125 x 5.625"; .1412: Japanese boy with very short hair and wearing a striped t-shirt sits at table, working an abacus which sits on top of a braille desk slate; a girl's arm can be seen at right; 5.375 x 4.375"; .1413: Two Japanese boys stand in front of a jet aircraft, one wearing a pilot's helmet and parachute harness, both too big for him; behind them other children and a woman gather around the wings of the plane, exploring it by touch, while men in uniforms stand on the wing, partially out of the frame; 4.5 x 3.625"; .1414: Japanese children are gathered together, smiling and laughing at the camera; sepia tone; 4.875 x 4.5"; .1415: Two Japanese men unload cardboard boxes bound with string off of a flatbed truck; the boxes are printed "From American Printing House for the Blind, 1839 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, KY"; 4.75 x 6.5"; .1416: Large group of Japanese people gathered for photo outside among trees; captioned "Yuzo Sakai, close cropped hair man in center front row"; 2.5 x 4.25"; .1417: Japanese children on both sides of a large room, praying; woman at upright piano in corner; captioned "Evening Service"; 4.25 x 5.875"; .1418: Boys and adult male teacher seated around iron heating stove with braille slates on their laps; a bookshelf lines the wall on right; 3.875 x 6.25"; .1419: Man in white cap, white shorts and tank top leads line of children up walk past a large pillar with a sign in Japanese script; a line of low wooden buildings is in the background; a lone boy is walking out in front of the group; 5 x 4.5"; .1420: Wide format photo of children seated on long sofa and chairs around a round table, an adult in an armchair on the right; they all appear to have braille on laps or tabletops in front of them; light from a window behind the sofa backlights the group; 3.125 x 6.25"; .1421: Five children in a miscellany of mismatched clothing walks hand-in-hand, smiling; their outlines are picked out in white correcting fluid; 2.75 x 3.75"; .1422: Two girls and a boy explore the front of a 1948 era Mercury automobile; bright sunshine.
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: ca. 1950
History/Provenance: .1415 is featured in a March 1956 issue of "The New Insight." Captioned "This truck-load of grade 1 1/2 braille books, discarded by the American Printing House for the Blind, was sent by the John Milton Society to the Yokohama Christian Blind School. In all, we sent 15 tons of books to 13 schools from Africa to Japan."
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Abacus Air pilots Aircraft Automobiles Blind children Braille Classrooms Japan Pianos Religious services Schools for the blind and visually impaired Stoves Tea Trucks
