| Object ID |
2006.12.1 |
| Object Name |
Slate, Desk |
| Title |
Perkins Institute Model 13 Desk Slate |
| Made |
Perkins Institution for the Blind |
| Place of Origin |
Watertown, MA |
| Date |
ca. 1935 |
| Description |
Perkins Institute Model 13 Desk Slate; rectangular wooden board with parallel grooves in sides, seven pairs of holes in grooves to hold pins in the slate; nickel plated brass paper clamp riveted to top of board, clamp has a piano hinge with a steel wire pin, two teeth on bottom pass through holes in the top plate of the clamp; nickel plated brass slate, four rows of 34 cells, cells have six cutouts to hold stylus point in proper position; raised bead horizontally on top of slate between the second and third row of cells; steel pin on piano hinge; single tooth on top of slate passes through hole in bottom; bottom plate of slate has six hollows punched under each cell to help form proper dots. |
| Inscription text |
PERKINS INST./MODEL 13 |
| Makers mark |
PERKINS INST./MODEL 13 |
| Provenance/History |
Mrs. Ethel Angell was born in Cleveland and moved with her family to Temp, AZ as a child. A schoolteacher, she married her husband Phillip in 1921, while attending UC Berkeley. In the 1930s, she joined a Red Cross class in Berkeley to learn braille transcription. Her daughter, Tommy, remembered her mother working on the transcriptions while she and her brother swam or played at the park. Red Cross certification was obtained at the time by passing a written test and submitting a braille "manuscript" of 50 or more transcribed pages. This slate was used by Mrs. Angell to prepare her manuscript. |
| Used |
Angell, Ethel F. |
| Dimensions |
H-12.625 W-10.5 D-0.75 inches |
| Material |
Wood, brass, nickel |
| Subjects |
Blind.
Printing and writing systems.
Aids for the blind and visually handicapped.
Instructional aids, tools, and supplies.
Boards.
Slates. |
| Search Terms |
Perkins School for the Blind (MA) |
| Credit line |
Gift of Tommy Angell, 2006.12 |
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