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communication

Testimony to the Uniform Type Committee

Raised type was first invented in France in 1824, by Louis Braille.

Survey of Blackwell’s Island

Many blind people lived in dire conditions in the city almshouse for the poor, because they were not able to support themselves and had no other place to go.