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Moon type

This sample has written text above each line of Moon type

New York Point

Key to New York Point: capitals, lower case, contractions and punctuation marks

Braille playing cards

Braille playing cards - with blue tin containing the pack, date unknown but showing braille identification in the top left corner of each card

Library and Publishing Department

Stitching Braille Courier after braille production for distribution to CNIB Library members. Miss Mitchell was assistant librarian, she joined the Free Library for the Blind in 1917 and retired in 1957 having served for 40 years

Braille

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

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

Stylus for writing braille

Bert's father used a stylus to create embossed text versions of the books Bert needed for university.