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Title
Group of blind people sitting around listening to a "talking book", ca.1928
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1928
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a group of blind people sitting around listening to a "talking book", ca.1928. A group of men and women sit around a record player, listening intently to the "talking book." J. Robert Atkinson can be seen sitting with the group. Three large books lean against the player, and a lamp stands behind it, while a piano sits behind the group.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30259 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36520
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30259
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36520.jpg
Subject
Braille Institute of America
Atkinson, J. Robert (John Robert), 1887-1964
Talking books
Blind
Institutional sites
Time Period
circa 1928
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36520 [Accession number]
CHS-36520 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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