- Accession Number:
- 2004.134.49.148
- Description:
- Color photograph; an American Printing House for the Blind employee is operating a clamshell press; she is wearing a teal sweatshirt and jeans with a teal scrunchy in her hair; she has a white fingerless glove on her left hand; she is holding the plate open with her left hang and arranging the sheet of paper in the press with her right; to her left in the foreground are stacks of embossed pages; to her right is a stack of blank pages; six windows are visible on the wall behind her; two clamshell presses are visible behind her.
- Medium:
- Photographic Paper
- Print Size:
- 4"(h) x 6"(w)
- Date:
- ca. 1990
- Photographer:
- Unidentified
- History/Provenance:
- Universal/Colts Armory platen presses manufactured by Thomson-National became known at APH as "clamshell presses," and were adapted for braille use by removing all their inking mechanisms.
- Credit Line:
- (see provenance)
- Subjects:
- Braille Presses
