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Description
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| Relief map of Africa; title, creator, and creator's location identified in raised letters, at bottom; German braille, at top, provides name of publisher (Verein zur Forderung der Blindenbildung, Steglitz, Berlin), and date; "Afrika von M. Kunz, Illzach" in print, lower left corner; mapped area has hand-inked print labeling; large bodies of water have slightly raised horizontal lines and are gently highlighted in blue; landmass is slightly higher and mountainous areas are raised; borders are represented by dotted lines, colored yellow; major cities are indicated by raised red dots; rivers are indicated by raised blue lines; latitude and longitude are represented by short raised lines with braille and print numbers around perimeter of mapped area. Coloring may have been done by hand with colored pencil and/or watercolors. Martin Kunz was the director of the Blind Institute at Illzach, Germany and the leading producer of maps in Europe during the 1890s. --Tactile Pictures (Eriksson, 1998). |
Relief map of Africa
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Copyright Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
Image Courtesy Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. Note: use of some materials may be restricted, please call before publishing in any format.
| Kunz relief map of Africa |
Image Courtesy Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. Note: use of some materials may be restricted, please call before publishing in any format.