Large Merrick Interlining Frame (braille slate)
Desk slate with metal guide/frame for writing two lines of 40 braille cells. Made by RNIB ca.1932
Archives
Braille numbers
Showing the symbol signifying a number following and the use of four dots for numerics 1-9 and zero
Braille alphabet
Braille alphabet showing the use of six dots and the corresponding letters, A-Z
Miss Mary Edwards reading braille
The first person in Canada to read “Gone with the Wind” in Braille
Library and Publishing Department
Sherman Swift, Librarian and Miss Swift, his sister, operating a braille printing press, ca. 1918 at the College Street offices
Braille
Young girl sitting under a tree reading from a large braille book on her lap
Louis Braille
Bust of Louis Braille by Etienne Leroux (bronze), Coupvray, France
Moon type
Specimens of Dr. Moon's Type for the Blind as applied to foreign languages. The first line of the of the Lord's Prayer translated into various languages and written in Moon Code, including English, Swedish, Russian, Arabic and seven other languages..
Moon type
Dr. Moon's Alphabet for the Blind. Note: the dotted marks of letters printed over the alphabet for the blind, show what portions of the common letter are omitted, in order to lay the characters open and clear to the touch.
Moon type
Page of Moon type in a open bound book