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MS- Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind
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FRANK G. PUTNAM, Superintendent     AMBROSE M. SHOTWELL, Librarian
Saginaw, W. S., Michigan
Free Instruction and Industrial Employment at the Institution
Books for the Blind at their Homes, Loaned and Returned Post Free
Wanted-Full Information Concerning all Blind Persons in Michigan
In reading raised characters by touch; in writing Braille or other point characters representing
letters, etc.; in operating ordinary typewriters; in letter-writing, elementary English, business forms,
convenient arithmetical methods for the blind; in civics and current history; in vocal and instrumental music; in piano-tuning and repairing, and in those branches of handicraft in which the blind
are able to earn, in whole or in part, their own support, such as, broom-making, chair-caning, rugweaving, fine fabric work and miscellaneous minor arts and industries.
The Institution receives as inmates those blind residents of Michigan between 18 and 60 years
of age who are of good character and in suitable condition of body and mind for receiving needful
instruction or productive employment, and it affords the necessary instruction and training, with
board, lodging, washing and incidental medical service free of charge during a limited term of tuition;
after which proficient industrial workers who are able and willing to earn their own support are then
paid what each can earn at current piece-price wages above the cost of the maintenance afforded him
by the Institution. It is not a permanent free home, asylum or infirmary for aged or otherwise incapacitated blind persons, however needy or worthy of tender, philanthropic care and treatment some
such would-be applicants may be; it is not a hospital for the cure of blindness or any serious malady;
it is not a school for the young blind, whose education is provided for by the State at Lansing, and
not a substitute for any other of Michigan's State institutions. It very properly gives chief attention
to vocational instruction, training and employment. The daily output of its manufacturing department includes about 75 dozen corn brooms, toy brooms and whisks in considerable variety and of
excellent quality, which are promptly sold on their merits in the open market, thus recovering the cost
of the raw materials and the wages paid to the blind artisans. Its trained piano tuners are winning
success in various parts of the State. If you wish fluff or other rugs made or chairs caned, etc.,
remember that blind women earn their livelihood by such work at Saginaw, Mich. For the
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use of books printed in raised characters for blind readers, write to Librarian A. M. Shotwell.                 For
further information apply to Supt. Frank G. Putnam, Institution for the Blind, Saginaw, W. S., Mich.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Joseph Hudson, President                      Henry H. Chatters, Treasurer        ~           F. Bruce Smith, Secretary
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Frank G. Putnam, Superintenden




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