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Womyn's Braille Press records, 1980-1996.
BANC MSS 2006/172LOCAL
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Title:
Womyn's Braille Press records, 1980-1996Women's Braille Press records
Creator/Contributor:
Womyn's Braille Press, creatorAbstract:
Contains correspondence, including fundraising letters and letters to subscribers; board meeting minutes; Womyn's Braille
Press (WBP) constitution; newsletters; organizational brochures, literature catalogs of taped and braille titles produced
by WBP; information written for volunteers; and feature articles about the WBP.
Date:
1980 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Womyn's Braille Press -- Archives
Feminist literature -- Publishing
Lesbians' writings, American -- Publishing
Libraries and the blind -- United States
People with visual disabilities -- Services for
Blind -- Books and reading -- United States
Blind, Periodicals for the
Nonprofit organizations -- United States
Note:
Collection processed at folder level in 2006.
Womyn's Braille Press records, BANC MSS 2006/172, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Womyn's Braille Press papers, 1988-1996; Also located at; University of Minestora Libraries, Tretter Collection, Special Collections
and Rare Books.
Womyn's Braille Press (WBP) was a project run by blind women from 1980 to 1996. WBP's purpose was to produce feminist and
lesbian literature on tape and in braille for women who are blind or print disabled. WBP published a newsletter for roughly
12 years, and served as a network for blind feminists in the U.S. and somewhat internationally as well.
In English with some items written in braille.
Physical Description:
4 boxes (1.4 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2006/172LOCAL