Assembling books for blind – 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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Assembling books for blind
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Its title points to the making of braille and embossed books, a slow, hand-directed process that prepared pages for readers who could not see print. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of news pictures from the Bain News Service, a New York agency active in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the service supplied, so the specific workroom and the people in it remain unidentified. The scene still reflects a period when charities and volunteers worked to widen access to reading for blind people.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1323 |
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