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Description
Photograph of Mary Diack at an automatic book sewing machine for Braille, ca.1933. Standing left of a large piece of machinery bearing the name "Oversewing Co.", a woman in an apron slides a book through a metal section. The machinery is an elaborate metal piece, composed of wheels, mesh wiring and an assortment of intricate structures. Behind this, at right, sit stacks of paper, while a windowed wall lines the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
Blind--Printing and writing systems Blind--Books and reading Blind Women printers Women in the book industries and trade Diack, Mary Universal Braille Press Braille Institute of America, Incorporated Oversewing Company Industry--Printing and printing presses--Braille Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California Los Angeles USA
Source
41162 [Accession number] 84-1-1810 [Microfiche number] CHS-41162 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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