A circa 1900 portrait of Reverend William H. Murray, (of the Scottish Bible Society) missionary to China. Murray was disabled, having lost his left arm as a 9 year old child in a sawmill machinery accident. In China he developed a script for the blind using a system of embossed dots similar to Braille which also helped sighted foreigners learn Mandarin.

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Size: 3137px × 4724px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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