What can the blinded man do in the world of commerce and industry – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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What can the blinded man do in the world of commerce and industry comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A blinded workman, trained for no particular job, runs a drill press in a large electrical works, and a second sightless worker builds packing cases for shipped machinery, a task that might seem to require sight. The poster comes from an exhibit by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind, both working to return wounded and disabled men to paid employment after the First World War. Its captions argue against the assumption that blindness ended a worker's usefulness, and they show employers the kinds of factory tasks that disabled people could perform.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone. |
| Genre | Exhibit posters 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster captions: A blinded workman, without special training, operating a drill press in a large electrical works ; Sightless worker making packing cases for shipment of mechanical products - a job in which eyesight might well be expected as a requisite. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. |
| Subjects | Institute for the Crippled and Disabled--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects. Blind persons--1910-1920. Disabled veterans--1910-1920. Working class--1910-1920. Drilling & boring machinery--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,810 × 4,725 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 312_What_can_the_blinded_ma_1919 |
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