Subject: Blind persons--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: J. Robert Atkinson stands behind a large braille book on a bookstand, and holds another book in his hand at the opening of the Braille Press (Braille Universal Press, which became the Braille Institute of America, BIA). The location is his new braille book plant located at 739 North Vermont Avenue. Photo appears with the article "Sightless Publisher Entertains: Braille Press Founder Holds Open House at New Plant for 150 Fellows," Los Angeles Times, 02 Dec. 1927: A3.
Date:: December 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Braille Institute of America in Los Angeles provides current reading material for blind persons. The article goes on to describe the processes used to transcribe a book into braille.
Date:: March 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Braille Institute of America in Los Angeles provides current reading material for blind persons. The article goes on to describe the processes used to transcribe a book into braille.
Date:: March 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Van Zandt advocates the removal of profits from war, a neutrality policy and legislation to combat Communism. Van Zandt visited the National Military Home Hospital in West L.A. where he met with hundreds of veterans.
Date:: April 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Colonel Samuel Brown sits on a chair with his hands on his lap and his cane by his side.
Date:: November 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Negative appears to be have been misfiled. Subject matter aligns with a Los Angeles Times article of November 13, 1933 describing an event connected to "See What the Blind Do" week.
Date:: [circa November 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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