Tactile Model, Tower of Babel
date: label: date made
content: late 1930s
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Tactile architectural models such as this reproduction of the Biblical Tower of Babel were used to teach students who were blind or had low vision. This one was used at the Michigan School for the Blind and dates from the late 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan
topic: label: Subject
content: Blind
label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the State of Michigan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0222.02
label: accession number
content: 2004.0222
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0222.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: model, tactile
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (outside material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 30 in x 30 in; 116.84 cm x 76.2 cm x 76.2 cm