Tactile Printing : First Books and Early Presses
Object ID:
2005.49
Title:
Tour group watching an APH braille transcriber stereotyping a braille plate
Photographer:
[unknown]
Place:
American Printing House for the Blind
Date:
ca. 1950
Description:
Black-and-white photograph shows a braille transcriber, Grace Braham Thompson, embossing braille plates using a stereograph at the American Printing House for the Blind. Honey Oliver is also stereotyping embossing plates, at top left. Several people, on tour at APH, are watching. One woman holds an APH Tour Guide booklet.
Medium:
Paper
Print Size:
4 in. (h) x 5 1/4 in. (w)
Provenance:
Photograph was located in APH Braille Transcription by a co-worker of Rita Mudd, a braille transcriber. Nothing more is known about its history.
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