This Standard English Braille textbook was distributed by the Sydney Industrial Blind Institution Braille Library to people who had undertaken Braille transcription training. It provided the user with the contractions and rules for both Grade 1 and Grade 2 forms. Grade 1 was the beginner standard which used uncontracted Braille, ie: no words were contracted or reduced to a designated combination. Codes for punctuation, numbers and different forms were used, such as to signify a maths book rather than a literary text. Grade II was used by skilled Braille users, and used contractions to represent certain common words rather than spelling it in it's entirety. Much like every other language, different rules applied across the various English speaking countries with different methods used, and in 2004 a Unified English Braille Code was adopted to overcome this. Accompanying this textbook, was a 2 line Braille frame and blank pages for practising.1 Braille text book with blank Braille pagesbraille equipment, sydney industrial blind institution

Items 598.01-.04 originally pinned togetherFoolscap, printed single page copy of Dept of Public Works memo re Williamstown Short Road, dated 12 Sept 1887; original memo dated 19.8.1887. Includes costs of grading road.engineering - roads streets lanes and footpaths, edward clark, town clerks, william thwaites

BOOKLET, BUFF COLOURED PAPER PAGES 162-176 WITH IMAGE OF A SAILING SHIP ON THE FRONT COVER CONTAINS VARIOUS BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT IN THE VICTORIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM.SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL VIGNETTES AIMED AT GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT PRODUCED BY THE VICTORIAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION local history, books, school, education, books, history, education