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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated November 27, 1964 reads, "Busy housewives, from left, Mrs. Maurice Leasure, Mrs. Stanley Herzoff and Mrs. Art Falk inspect a page of the school textbook 'Biological Science' after Mrs. Leasure transcribed it into braille for the blind. The three women are officers in the Valley Braille Transcriber Guild, only recently organized in the Valley."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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