Blind The Braille Alphabet at Library For The Blind, Institute Of The Blind – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Blind The Braille Alphabet at Library For The Blind, Institute Of The Blind, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Blind The Braille Alphabet at Library For The Blind, Institute Of The Blind
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A young reader's fingers move across a row of raised dots in this c. 1912 glass negative, one of the Harris & Ewing studio's pictures of daily life in Washington, D.C. The photograph shows a library set up for people who cannot read print, where books were produced in braille, the system of six-dot raised characters devised by Louis Braille in France in the 1820s. Braille had become the standard reading method for blind people in the United States by the early twentieth century, and institutions like this one were central to making printed texts available to them. Harris & Ewing, the Washington studio founded in 1905, documented government, social, and institutional life in the capital, and this image preserves a quieter corner of that work.
| Created / published | c. 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | negative, glass, 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Notes | Harris & Ewing, photographer |
| Source | Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection |
| Original scan | 2,292 × 1,788 px · prints to 8 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 01837a BLIND, THE. BRAILLE ALPHABET |
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