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The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were embossed heavy paper with letters, lines, and symbols. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first atlas produced for the blind to read without the assistance of a sighted person. (via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Atlas for The Blind 1837)

The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were embossed heavy paper with letters, lines, and symbols. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first atlas produced for the blind to read without the assistance of a sighted person. (via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Atlas for The Blind 1837)

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Mark Manders’s sculptures can be read as poems that have been freed from the language and evoke a mysterious world of ghostly afterimages and waking dreams.

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