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Slate & stylus, Canadian Printing for the Blind Fonds, CSTM archives, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Slate & stylus (c.1980) collected by Ernst Hamm for the Canadian Science and Technology Museum in 1986.

Sharlyn Ayotte, April 2016, Ottawa ON

Photograph of Sharlyn Ayotte at her Ottawa home, April 2016, holding up a kerchief her guide dog wears which reads "I am Your Customer, One Voice,…

SCOAP Award to T-Base Communications, RBC and NCR, 1998

Society of Canadian Office Automation Professionals award given to T-Base Communications, RBC and NCR for their collaborative work on the design and…

Sara Kirke Award, given to Sharlyn Ayotte 2009

Sharlyn Ayotte received the Sara Kirke Award from Carleton University's Sprott School of Business in 2009 in recognition of her achievements as a…

Royal Bank Talking ATM orientation kit, part 1, with earphones

One part of the orientation kit developed by T-Base for the RBC through its InfoTouch system, alongside earphones to be used with the ATM

Roland Galarneau Interview, c.1987

An interview with Roland Galarneau on the eve of his retirement about his technical inventions and life experiences.

Refugee case file, 1951. An image of "blind displaced person" case file put together for the CNIB to facilitate selection of individuals to be sponsored and resettled in Canada. The attached photograph depicts a young family, including husband, who was blind, sitting beside his wife and eight-year old daughter.

An image of "blind displaced person" case file put together for the CNIB to facilitate selection of individuals to be sponsored and resettled in…

RBC Accessible ATM, 2016

This is an image of the contemporary accessible Automated Teller Machine, located at the Royal Bank branch at 99 Bank, near the corner of Queen Street…

Picht braille-writer (c.1900), CSTM artifact no. 1987.0263.001

Picht braille-writer c.1900, first developed by Oscar Picht, director of the Provincial School for the Blind in Bromberg, Germany, and later director…

Photograph of Karol Gamrot and guide dog, Utta

This photograph depicts Karol Gamrot, a once displaced person who was blind, when he first arrived in Canada in the early hours of 18 January 1951,…