The 1837 Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was made to help blind children visualise geography. Supplied to children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston it features heavy paper embossed with letters, lines, and symbols.
It was the first atlas produced for the blind to read without the assistance of a sighted person. Braille had been invented by 1825, but was not widely used until decades later. It represented letters well, but could not represent shapes and cartographic features.
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