Relief Map of the City of Columbus, Ohio

This photograph is a relief map of a portion of the city of Columbus. It is used as a teaching tool for the blind students at the Ohio School for the Blind. As of 1941, it would take 81 models of this size to portray the whole city. This model is exact with the arrangement of the buildings, the street names and arrangements of blocks, it is considered a pictorial diagram rather than a to scale model. The buildings are labeled in Braille and in one corner is a wire arrow lettered to denote the directions, East, West, North and South