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Excerpt from Report of the Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society and Free Circulating Library for the Blind (Incorporated) 1905 Whilst I was at the Fair, the Illinois School for the Blind, at Jacksonville, was represented by several of its scholars, who occupied neighboring booths to our own. The scholars read from embossed books, wrote on typewriters, played on various musical instruments, and sang very sweetly. In a booth near to us, Lottie Sullivan, an interesting blind, deaf and dumb girl, was on exhibition. She was a pupil from the Colorado School for the Blind, and could read the dotted type, write letters on the typewriter, and sew with the sewing machine. Mr. Moore readily taught her, and all the scholars from the Jacksonville School, to read by the Moon type; and Dr. Freeman, the Superintendent of that school, with whom I frequently conversed, asked many questions, and became deeply interested in our work. He expressed his determination to start a similar method of teaching the adult blind in his own city. He saw that our method, and the type we used, solved a problem about the adults and their reading which had puzzled him before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.