Vacuforming educational aids, 1987

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2004.134.49.259

Description: Color photograph; an American Printing House for the Blind employee Ron Gwaltney is removing plastic parts of Fine Motor Development Materials, preschool educational aids for children with multiple disabilities, from a vacuforming machine; he has black hair and glasses; he is wearing a blue, long-sleeved, button-down shirt; there are shelves against the wall behind them filled with miscellaneous tools.

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.

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