Saturday, August 16, 2014

Blind map

In the 1830s, Samuel Gridley Howe developed an embossed alphabet known as Boston Line Type. This atlas, printed in 1837, made use of this type to present geographical information for students at the New England Institution for Education of the Blind  Scans of the rest of Howe’s atlas can be seen on the David Rumsey Map Collection website:

NHMap
New Hampshire
OhioMap
Ohio
FloridaMap
Florida

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