Galleries

Large residential building with fence in front and driveway at right hand side, surrounded by trees and with ivy growing up a portion of the frontage.

142 College Street

Statue with marble plinth and metal postman figure. “Figure is holding a bound book inscribed with Books for the Blind, Postage Free.”

Books for the Blind Postage Free – 40th anniversary

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

Braille printing in Montreal

A long narrow room containing a table with finished products on it, a man sitting at a press and a woman with her back to the camera working at the end of the room

Braille publishing in Toronto

A stack of books on a table with a heavy chain across the top and which is joined up by a large padlock

Canada ratified the Marrakesh Treaty in June 2016

Paper label showing the text transcribed in the description

Canadian Free Library for the Blind – Book plate

Brass plate with reverse text nailed to a wooden block

Canadian Free Library for the Blind – Stamp

Reverse text on a brass plate nailed to a wooden block

Canadian Free Library for the Blind

Client is sitting facing the screen and has her hand on the document on the scanner. Trainer is sitting on the right hand of the client. .

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), ca. 1970s

CNIB Library Department book plate and mailing label

Colleen and Gordie Howe are watching a volunteer narrator record a magazine onto reel-to-reel tape

CNIB Library recording studio – Listen to magazines

A woman, wearing headphones, is pointing at the reader and has her hand on the start button for recording. The book that is being recorded lies open on the table in front of her

CNIB Library recording studio

A woman is sitting in the closed studio booth reading into the microphone while the monitor watches through a glass windo and listens with headphones on her head. The reel to reel recording equipment is on the monitor's left hand side

CNIB Library recording studio

Two women sitting on a bench out-of-doors. On the left the vision mate is reading a newspaper, The Telegram, while the CNIB client listens.

CNIB Volunteer reads to a client

A smart phone with ear buds attached lies on top of three CNIB Library CDs

DAISY: Digital Accessible Information System

White invitation card with printed script lettering

Invitation to a fundraiser

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

Dr, Carruthers sits at the table reading braille with another braille book beside him and a mechanical brailler opposite. Miss Mitchell is standing on a stool tidying or sorting books on the shelves. The room is lined with book shelves and there are unfinished basket weaving projects on the top of the bookcases

Library Reading Room in 1918

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

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

Orbit Braille Reader 20 (2016)

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

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

An oblong card

Solicitation permit 1917

An upright seated brown bear with a product tag tied around it's neck

Spinoza .. the bear who speaks from the heart (TM)

The bear is lying on its stomach and a cable connects with the player through a zipped gap at the top of the leg. An owner's manual stands beside the bear

Spinoza .. the bear who speaks from the heart (TM)

Talking books on disks

A man sits at braille production equipment with Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir looking on. Sherman Swift stands behind the group

The Governor General visits the CNIB Library

Two storey brick building with six steps up to an entrance portico in the front

Western Branch Library, Toronto c.1909

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

Braille Embossing Machine (IBM)