Jubilee Institute for the Blind :Catalogue of goods made by blind men and women in the Institute Workshops. Pleasant and useful occupation is to the blind, even more than the sighted, the key to health and happiness. Send your orders! M Smethurst, printer, Station Street, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand, 1929.

Date
1929
By
Jubilee Institute for the Blind; M Smethurst (Firm)
Reference
Eph-A-BLIND-1929-01
Description

Sales catalogue with photographic illustrations of goods for sale, including cane baskets, trays, bassinettes, dolls' prams, children's furniture, fishing creels, picnic hampers, fish baskets, wool baskets, coal baskets, seagrass furniture, invalid carriage, coir fibre door mats, sennit mats, ships' fenders; also shows fruit punnets made from kahikatea white pine veneer.

Also advertises socks, netting and hammocks, carpet beaters; and advertises the services of blind people in a silver band, as masseurs, piano tuners and pipe organists.

Two copies held.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Booklet of 25 pages, each 247 x 190 mm.

Provenance: One copy donated by Mr Errol W Martin in 1984; one purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2007.

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Part of
[Ephemera relating to blindness, appeals on behalf of blind and partially sighted people, the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, Braille Week, cataracts and glaucoma, protecting eyes and sight. 1900-1999]
Format
1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Offset photomechanical prints, Advertisements, Sales catalogues, Booklet of 25 pages, each 247 x 190 mm.
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