2007.33.23

Embossing plate for tactile map

Embossing plate for tactile map, grid street pattern with various buildings indicated by raised nail heads; plate originally cast from printer's metal, some machine tool marks evident in recessed areas; plate pinned to wood block; embossed lines and pigmentation on wood block beneath the plate suggest that the block once formed part of a tactile map or diagram of some sort and was reused.

H-4.25 W-7 D-1.25 inches

City is unknown. Instead of an embossing plate, this might be a tactile map unto itself, as suggested by a high relieve steel pin in one corner that would be impossible to emboss correctly. Found in the AER Bledsoe Archives at the Maryland School for the Blind.

Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired