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- Collection: Braille and Talking Books Archive for Wayne County, Michigan
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American Foundation for the Blind talking book catalogue
List of American Foundation for the Blind talking book catalogue with catalogue numbers. Used used by the Books for the Adult Blind project to list available titles and to account for replacement discs needed by member distributing libraries.
Letter of machine shipment, July 17, 1940
Letter from R. B. Irwin to Mrs. Grace D. Lacey, Library for the Blind, Wayne County Library in Detroit, Michigan, accompanying receipt for shipping of 20 Talking Book players from Washington via Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Details include likely…
Letter Fragment, August 27, 1940
Fragment, on carbon paper, of a letter to Harland Trax, describing library service users, their ages and general reading habits, and formats they use. Starts to ask for novels "which are up-to-date and have the American scene".
Cover letter for list, February 25, 1941
Letter from Robert Voorhus, Director of the Books for the Adult Blind project, Washington, to Mrs Lacey, Librarian, Department for the Blind, Wayne County Library on Trumbull in Detroit, Michigan. Letter introduces a memorandum from April, 1940…
APH listing of Books for the Adult Blind
Typed listing of books put out by the American Printing House for the Blind. List has red pencil ruling out some titles. At the top of page 1, in red pencil, are the words 'These titles not distributed by (underlined) Books for the Adult Blind'. …
Survey for books to add to Talking Book Library, July 12, 1940
A letter from Harland Trax to Mrs. Grace D. Lacey, Librarian for the Blind, Wayne County Library, Detroit, Michigan. Letter requests suggestions of book titles and categories of books to add to the Talking Book Library in Washington, D.C.. Also asks…
Fragmentary Replacements, April 15, 1940
Letter from M. A. Roberts, Director of Project, Books for the Adult Blind, to Mrs. Grace D. Lacey, Librarian for the Blind at the Wayne County Library in Detroit, Michigan. Letter details a change in procedure for ordering replacement records that…
Letter about budgeting, January 8, 1940
Letter from M. A. Roberts Director, Project, Adult Books for the Blind in Washington D.C. , to Mrs Grace Lacey, Librarian, Department for the Blind, Wayne County Library in Detroit, Michigan. Letter details that budget appropriations for embossed…
Notice of supplies shipped, March 1, 1940
A letter from R B Irwin to Mrs. Grace D. Lacey, at the Department of the Blind with the Wayne County Library in Detroit, Michigan. Mr Irwin describes Talking Book containers and record envelopes being sent, which will be used for mailing Talking…
7th Machine Lot, November 11, 1939
An agreement between Mr. Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, and Mr. Adam Strohm, Wayne County Librarian, in Detroit, Michigan, for use of 3 Talking Book Players by Wayne County visually challenged residents. Includes cover letter