Vacuforming educational aids, 1987

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2004.134.49.231

Description: Color photograph; an American Printing House for the Blind employee is vacuforming Fine Motor Development Materials, preschool educational aids for children with multiple disabilities; he is bent over the machine, removing plastic pieces from it; he has short, dark hair and glasses; he is wearing a long-sleeved, light blue shirt, a watch on his left wrist, and jeans; there is a shelf against the back wall filled with miscellaneous work tools and products.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Print Size: 3.5 (h) x 5 (w) in.

Date: 1987

Photographer: Unidentified

History/Provenance: Vacuforming is a technique for making dense plastic molds using a machine that applies heat and pressure.

Credit Line: (see provenance)

Subjects: Braille