Printer R. T. Allen works on a braille copy of "Mutiny on the Bounty", Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Printer R. T. Allen works on a braille copy of "Mutiny on the Bounty", Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 29, 1936
Date: 1936-03-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The Braille Institute of America in Los Angeles provides current reading material for blind persons. The article goes on to describe the processes used to transcribe a book into braille.
Photograph appears with the article, "Publisher Aids Blind," Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar 1936: A1.
R. T. Allen bends over a machine, delicately holding a sheet of paper between his fingers while a bench of tools including a hammer, pliers, screwdrivers and scissors stands nearby.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Here R. T. Allen, printer, is removing a sheet of dampened bond paper which has been squeezed between the zinc stereotyped plates. Fingers of the blind will interpret these dents as a page from "Mutiny on the Bounty."
RxTx Allen Braille Institute 3/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4569 - RxTx Allen operating a braille press at the Braille Institute March/36 [stamped:] Apr 1-1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Allen, R. T.
Braille Institute of America
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0846
Latitude: -118.292128
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Blind persons--California--Los Angeles
Printing--California--Los Angeles
Braille

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13763
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7749
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Rights Country: US
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