Accession Number: 2010.32
Summary/Description: A collection of printed "reports" bound together in one volume sometime after 1892 for the use of B.B. Huntoon, who was superintendent of both the Kentucky School for the Blind and the American Printing House for the Blind. Cover is marbled paper over boards with leather corners and spine and gilt lettering. Volume title taken from spine. Contents: -- Alphabets; or Systems of Printing and Writing, and Notation of Music, Best Adapted to the Use of the Blind / J. Howard McHenry, compiler. [Baltimore, 1870], 18 p., with illustrations of the braille and New York point alphabets. -- Catalogue of Books and Music in the New York Point Print, Published by the American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, Ky. ca. 1895, 10 p. -- Kindergarten and Primary School for the Blind : A Brief Account of Its Foundation, Its Value, Its Present Wants and Future Needs / M. Anagnos. Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery & Co., 1886, 39 p., ill. Contains in facsimile an appeal of Laura Bridgman. -- Workshops for Blind Adults / M. Anagnos. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1887, 16 p. -- Legislation for the Prevention of Blindness / Lucien Howe. n.d., 6 p. [Reprinted from Proceedings American Ophthalmological Society, 1892]. -- Origin of the New York Institution for the Blind. The Origin and Development of the New York Point System. The True Structural Basis of a Punctiographic System / William B. Wait. ca. 1892, 49 p., ill. -- The Wait and the Braille: Musical Notations Reviewed and Compared / T. Reeves and Elmer S. Hosmer. Boston: Ellis, 1891, 29 p., ill. -- A Reviewer Reviewed and Some Errors of Statement Concerning Embossed Systems of Printing and Writing Corrected / M.W. Sawyer. Boston: Ellis, 1891, 74 p., ill., with tables.
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2010.32
Publisher: [see notes in Summary field]
Subjects: Braille Education -- New York Kindergartens Music for the blind and visually impaired New York Point Printing and writing systems Schools for the blind and visually impaired
Physical Description: 1 v. (various paging) ; 8.75 x 6 in.
