Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind

Interview with Flora Long

Date of Interview: 

Wed, 06/15/2005

Collection: 

American Printing House for the Blind Corporate Memory Project

Interviewer: 

Raymond Randles

Interviewee: 

Flora Long

Subjects: 

American Printing House for the Blind, Employees, Shipping

Call Number: 

2006.13.14a

Flora Long talks about working in the Shipping Department at the American Printing House for the Blind. She describes the packing, receiving, and shipping processes. She also talks about earlier work at APH as a braille press operator (1973) using clam shell presses, and about braille collating, thermoforming, and making Script Letter Boards in Educational Aids. The effect of the Teamsters Union at APH is also mentioned.

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