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Music braille

Piano player with right hand on the keyboard and left hand reading braille music

Music braille

Robert Robitaille, in Montreal, Supervisor of the Music Transcription Service, transcribing from music in print to braille

Braille teaching tool

Handmade wooden braille teaching tool. One row of 6 dot braille cells and a paper print guide to the alphabet attached above the braille cells. Braille in this photograph reads CNIB

Braille teaching tool

A handmade wooden board with two rows of 6 dot braille cells and wooden pegs. Braille in this photograph reads CNIB on the top row and INCA on the second row

Braille printing in Montreal

The braille printing shop in Montreal was located in the basement of 1181 Guy. Jacques Talbot in the foreground sits at the stereotype in 1969

Reading braille

Caption from the Annual Report, 1937; Young boy, who has a small percentage of vision, is reading a Braille book in the CNIB Institute in Toronto after being taught braille at home by an Institute home teacher. He is shown reading a braille book in the library of the Institute in Toronto

Writing a braille letter

Young lady, a student in a class of blind children in conducted by the Central Western Division in Winnipeg, is writing a braille letter with slate and stylus