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Young girl sitting under a tree reading from a large braille book on her lap

Oblong card with black edge containing 5 rows of braille letters with the corresponding capital letter beside it

Braille alphabet

A print guide to braille numbers with the equivalent roman numbers

Braille numbers

Braille playing cards - closeup of 6,9,10, jack and queen of spades with braille in top left corner, an open tin with braille instructions inside the lid and the joker on top of the pack

Braille playing cards

Operator in the foreground at the stereotype machine, two other staff in the background

Braille printing in Montreal

Wooden board with 2 rows for creating four braille letters - large wooden pegs are placed in holes to create letters

Braille teaching tool

Braille teaching tool

A young girl with elbows on the table is looking upwards, above her is the word dream and the braille equivalent

Dream – braille poster

Portable model of the brailler is painted blue and has wood keys covered with white simulated ivory

Erika Picht Portable Braillewriter

Young girl with her hands reading refreshable braille output

Humanware BrailleNote Touch

A typewriter with two hands on the keyboard and an insert of a close up braille character

IBM 100 Braille Electric Typewriter

Kurzweil Reading Edge 1992

A wooden board with guide holes on each side and a metal slate

Large Merrick Interlining Frame (braille slate)

A student's hands are on a page of braille with another hand guiding the progress

Learning to read braille

Four people sitting at a table with their hands on braille sheets with the teacher standing behind them

Learning to read braille

Home teacher Elizabeth Rusk, right, teaches Edna Sharpe to read braille, 1934. Caption in Annual Report reads - The Blind Teach the Blind, a lesson in braille being given by one of our home teachers

Learning to Read Braille

Miss Swift is feeding paper into the press, S. Swift stands to the right of the machine pressing down on a lever which presses the braille embossed plate into the paper

Library and Publishing Department

Woman stands in front of a waist high stitching machine feeding a document through the stitcher. Behind her on a table are stacks of completed documents

Library and Publishing Department

Library user reading braille in the Library

Woman reading a braille volume at a table with the print version of the book and eleven additional volumes of braille on the table

Miss Mary Edwards reading braille

A poster with English headings in gothic script interspersed with lines of moon type (not in raised print)

Raised Moon type in a open, bound book

The complete alphabet in Moon plus a final line: God is Love in roman letters and Moon type

Young girl sitting crosslegged in front of the brailler which is bright blue with a yellow top. A USB connection is visible on the side.

Mountbatten Brailler

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Young man sits at two level keyboard of an organ with his right hand on the upper keyboard and his left hand on the braille music beside him on his stool

Man sitting at a desk with printed music open on his left hand side.

Music braille bound in a blue cardboard cover with braille title embossed and CNIB Library labels on the front cover.

View of the top of the Reader with two hands on the braille keys

Orbit Braille Reader 20 (2016)

Labels around the Reader indicate function keys - clockwise from the top: Arrow and select control keys, Input keys, Space Bar, Panning control, 20 Refreshable braille cells

Orbit braille reader

The brailler has 6 keys and space bar, a locking device to prevent paper from falling out of the machine, and a fixed carriage holding the paper

Perkins brailler

A man sits in front of the Perkins brailler with his hands on the keys. His folded white cane is on the table beside him

Perkins brailler

Two women seated at a table in front of a perkins brailler. The student has her hand on the top of the machine with the teacher guiding her hand

Perkins brailler

Perkins brailler

A woman is sitting with a young boy and an alphabet picture book on her lap. The boy is pointing to an elephant on the E page and the next page is F is for flower

Print-braille book

Woman and child sitting on a couch. The woman is using her right hand to read the braille on a clear interleaved page while the child looks at the pictures

Print-braille book

A mother has her arm around her child and is reading the braille from the book on his lap

Print-braille book

Miss Common sits at a table with three open, raised print books in front of her. Her hands are on one of the books

Reading braille and other raised print books

Young boy reading a large braille book with his left hand seated at a table, surrounded but stacks of other books

Reading braille

Three stylus with wooden handles, two lying on their sides and one vertical on its wooden handle

Stylus for writing braille

The young girl is wearing school uniform, shirt, tie and tunic, sitting at table

Writing a braille letter

Young man sitting cross legged reading a braille book on his lap

Woman sits at a console holding pack of 80 column punch cards

Braille Embossing Machine (IBM)

Two hands reading braille on paper with the Braille Lite to the right. A diskette entitled Easy Braille Translator is on the table beside the equipment

Braille Lite 40

Side view of the bust of Louis Braille as an adult

A page of raised roman letters and equivalent raised New York Point letters, contractions and punctuation marks

Large building, two stories and a mansard roof. Central tower on the facade rises above the roof

Ontario Institute for the Blind, Brantford