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Braille -- 1951-2000

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Matt Rizzo papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rizzo
Abstract

Typescript essays and a treatise (some in Braille) by Matt Rizzo, Chicago philosopher/writer who was blinded in a robbery at age 22. Collection also includes photo-reproductions of Rizzo with son Charlie and guide dogs, a news clipping about Rizzo's life, audiocassettes of Rizzo dictating parts of his works, a Perkins Brailler, and Rizzo's two Brailling slates with an accompanying stylus for writing Braille.

Dates: approximately 1940s-2002