Geography by touch

Geography by touch
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Title: Geography by touch
Description:

Caption: "Geography by touch--Ida Bell, blind student studies geography by means of a relief map. At Bushwick High [School, 400 Irving Avenue], 15 blind students use portable Braille slates for classroom work, study in specially equipped rooms."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Apr. 14, 1946; "Eagle staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Bushwick High School.
Blind
High school students
Maps for the blind
Topographic maps
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: SCHL 0798