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Rejean Proulx, a 20-year-old university student from Hearst who has been blind since birth, reads with an Optecon machine at the Canadian National Ins(...)
Rejean Proulx, a 20-year-old university student from Hearst who has been blind since birth, reads with an Optecon machine at the Canadian National Ins(...)

Rejean Proulx, a 20-year-old university student from Hearst who has been blind since birth, reads with an Optecon machine at the Canadian National Ins(...)

Date9/12/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Rejean Proulx; a 20-year-old university student from Hearst who has been blind since birth; reads with an Optecon machine at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind yesterday. It makes raised letters from the printed page.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0020874F
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