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Contributor Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress. Selections.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield. Selections.
Crafts, William, 1787-1826.
Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876.
McClintock, Anna.
Episcopal Church. Book of common prayer (1790). Selections.
New England Institution for the Education of the Blind.
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind.
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind.
Cox, Myra M., d. 1889, former owner.
Zinman, Michael.
Title [Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind.]
Alternate Title Bible. O.T. Proverbs.
Alternate Title Students' magazine (Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind)
Date [1830-1900]
Physical Description 13 items ; 41 x 31 cm or smaller
Notes Collection title devised by cataloger.
In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Contents Coll. Zinman Blind: [1] Specimen of type. Medium type. This sample of Howe's Boston line type appeared in the Ninth annual report of the trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind (Boston 1841) -- [2] Card embossed with a geometric diagram, and the Lord's prayer. This appeared as a specimen in Address to the trustees of the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (Boston 1833) -- [3] Of Greece & of Rome? raised-letter, all capitals, signed: W. Crafts -- [4] Poem in two verses by Anna McClintock, a blind poet, printed in raised letter on pink paper; first line: Art those weary burdened one? -- [5] Child's book, leaf 27; text is common to the moral lessons in spellers of the 1820s -- [6] New York point alphabet. Specimen printed in Boston line type and New York point; inscribed: Myra M. Cox PO address 624 Batavia -- [7] Students' magazine, Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the blind, v. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 3, 1838), leaf 3 --
Contents #Coll. Zinman Blind: [8] The pilgrims progress, leaf 79, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [9] New Jerusalem Church, leaves 141-142 -- [10] Proverbs chapter 6, leaves 980-981, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [11] Visitation of prisoners, leaf 245 of the Book of common prayer, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 [12] David Copperfield, leaves 188 and 193, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [13] Type specimen, [2] leaves.
Subject Blind -- Books and reading.
Blind -- Printing and writing systems -- Specimens.
Blind poets.
Women former owners.
Women writers.
Genre Books for the visually impaired.
Type specimens.
Provenance Cox, Myra M., d. 1889, former owner.
Zinman, Michael.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 1 Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.1-7 (Zinman)
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 2 #Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.8-13 (Zinman)
Accession number 11865.F (Zinman)